Mackay, Alice (F)

Surname: Mackay
Forename(s): Alice Dacre
Nationality: English.
Poet. Raised by her maternal grandparents. Educated at a boarding school where she learned Latin. Married, but was widowed soon after. Lived in South Africa and later (by 1905) Roding, near Dunmow, Essex. Contributed to Pall Mall Magazine, Argosy, The Cape Illustrated Magazine, The Examiner, Grocott’s Mail, and London Opinion. Author of Song of the London Man, Song of South Africa, and Other Poems (1890). Biographical information: Alice Dacre Mackay, Song of the London Man, Song of South Africa, and Other Poems, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1906, pp. vii-xvii. (CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 4
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Illusion 1895-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8092
Ariadne in Naxos 1895-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8098
Where Love Doth Dwell 1896-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8066
Phantasies 1896-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8069