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: 13
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
Omnia Vincit Amor 1895-12 The Argosy Poet 16934
Where Love Doth Dwell 1896-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8066
Phantasies 1896-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8069
Love’s Request 1896-06 The Argosy Poet 20150
Love’s Farewell 1896-07 The Argosy Poet 19988
On a Picture of Dante and Beatrice 1897-10 The Argosy Poet 20029
My Heart’s Haven 1898-03 The Argosy Poet 20057
Ars Longa; Vita Brevis 1898-05 The Argosy Poet 20070
Retrospection 1898-06 The Argosy Poet 20076
Haemon to Antigone 1898-12 The Argosy Poet 20209
Two Outlooks: A Dialogue 1899-07 The Argosy Poet 20100