Alicia Moore

This article is about the British novelist. For the American singer and songwriter born Alecia Beth Moore, see Pink (singer).

Alicia Moore (born Alicia Ann Radford, Sheffield, England; 1790–1873)[1] was a British novelist. She was the daughter of clergyman Thomas Radford (1748–1816) and Elizabeth (Gunning) Radford.[1] She was the ninth of ten children with six brothers and three sisters, and married Robert Moore.[2]

Moore was the author of Eveleen Mountjoy; or, Views of Life (1819), Rosalind and Felicia; or, The Sisters (1821) (later published as The Leycesters), and Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages (1846).[1]

Henry Rowland Brown (1837–1921) dedicated his illustrated guide book The Beauties of Lyme Regis and Charmouth to her.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Taylor, Michael A. (2015). "Mrs Alicia Moore, dedicatee of Henry Rowland Brown's 1859 guidebook Beauties of Lyme Regis" (PDF). Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Alicia Moore". 1790. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
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