Alice B. (Alice Boucher) Van Doren

Alice B. Van Doren, also listed as Alice Boucher Van Doren, is the author of Lighted to Lighten: The Hope of India, published in 1922. Library and public-domain records connect her most clearly with that book, and biographical records identify her lifespan as 1881–1962.

Lighted to Lighten was issued by the Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions and focuses on the conditions facing women in India. The book blends travel-style description, social commentary, and Christian missionary advocacy, with particular attention to education and the lives of girls and women.

Because detailed biographical information about her is limited in readily available sources, she is best understood through this surviving work. For modern listeners, her writing offers both a period view of reform movements and a window into how American religious and educational audiences were encouraged to think about India in the early 1920s.