Surname: Jones Forename(s): Alice b. 1836. Nationality: English.
Poet and governess. Author information from the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for “Were I a Star,” published on 26 August 1865, which lists the author
as Miss Alice Jones, Highgate, Kendal (NLS 341/310). The 1861 England census has Alice
Jones residing in Kendal, where she was also born, with her family. Her father, David
Jones, is listed as an Independent minister in the Lowther Street chapel. The 1871
census indicates that is living with her brother-in-law in Kendal, and that her profession
is a governess. Biographical information: Ancestry. (AC)