Photograph of Alice S. Deletombe that appeared in A Woman of the Century by Frances Willard and Mary Ashton Livermore.

Alice S. Deletombe (1854–1929) was an American poet from Gallipolis, Ohio.

Life and literary career

Alice Deletombe was born into a prominent French family in Gallipolis, Ohio, on April 2, 1854.[1][2] Deletombe's poems appeared in several publications, including an 1891 issue of The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review.[3] Her work was also published in the Catholic publication The Rosary Magazine, in alignment with her Catholic faith.[4][5]

In 1893, Deletombe was featured in the book A Woman of the Century by suffragists Frances Willard and Mary Livermore.[1]

Deletombe died on December 5, 1929, at the age of 75.

Sources

  1. 1 2 Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton. ISBN 978-0-7222-1713-9.
  2. ↑ The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review. 1891.
  3. ↑ The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review. 1891.
  4. ↑ The Rosary Magazine. Rosary Press. 1903.
  5. ↑ Humanities, National Endowment for the (1903-09-12). "The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, September 12, 1903, Image 4". p. 4. ISSN 2157-6696. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
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