Alice B. Neal

Alice Bradley Neal (September 13, 1828 – August 23, 1863)[1] was a 19th-century American writer. She was born in Hudson, New York, and was a widow by age 19.[2] In 1853 she married again, to broker Samuel Neal, and moved with him to rural New York; beset by illness, she bore him five children, dying shortly after the birth of the last.[3]

Alice B. Neal

Aliases

Alice wrote under many names and aliases, including;

  • Alice G. Lee
  • Alice B. Neal
  • Clara Cushman
  • Mrs. Joseph C. Neal
  • Alice B. Haven

Selected works
Alice B. Neal

For the Godey's Lady's Book and the Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, both publications out of Philadelphia between the years 1846 and 1864, Alice had over 30 poems and short stories published. She also wrote for The American Female Poets and The Gem of The Western World and did the written accompaniment for her husband's book Neal, Joseph C. Charcoal Sketches. Second Series, published in 1848.[4]

1847
  • January; "Asking Forgiveness" (poem) (as Alice G. Lee)
  • March; "The Blind Wife" (poem) (as Alice G. Lee)
  • July; "Love and Glory" (poem) (as Alice Gordon Lee)

1848
  • February; "Mistaking the Person" (short) (as Mrs. Joseph C. Neal)
  • July; "The Gossips of Rivertown" a.k.a. "Lessons of Charity" (short) (as Mrs. Joseph C. Neal)

1849
  • December; "Gossips and Tokens" (short)

1850
  • January; "Ideal Husbands" a.k.a. "School-Girl Fancies" (short) (as Mrs. Joseph C. Neal)
  • February; "The Nest at Home" (short) (as Mrs. Joseph C. Neal)
  • March; "The Young Bride's Trials" (short) (as Mrs. Joseph C. Neal)
  • May; "A Gift from Heaven" (short) (as Mrs. Joseph C. Neal)
  • July; "Bishop White Administering the Sacrament" (poem and essay) (as Mrs. Alice B. Neal)
  • August; "The Christian Mother" (poem) (as Alice B. Neal)
  • October; "Which is the Mother?" (short) (as Alice B. Neal)
  • November; "Furnishing" a.k.a. "Two Ways of Commencing Life" (short) (as Alice B. Neal)
  • December; "A Reminiscence of Jenny Lind" (quotes poem from Wm. C. Richards) (as Alice B. Neal)

1858

"Personal Reminiscences of Miss Eliza Leslie," Godey's Lady's Book 56. 1858. Page 344. (As Alice B. Haven)


References
  1. Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Haven, Alice Bradley" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 3. New York: D. Appleton. p. 117.
  2. "The female prose writers of America" By John Seely Hart, 1855
  3. "EMILY B. N. HAVEN (1827 – 1863)". librarycompany.org. Retrieved Sep 28, 2020.
  4. Hope Greenberg (1999-08-25). "Alice B. Neal Haven: List of Works". Uvm.edu. Retrieved 2010-06-11.
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