author
Alicia Catherine Mant
d. 1869
Best known for moral, imaginative stories for young readers, this 19th-century English writer built a steady body of children's fiction from the early 1800s onward. Her life stretched from Southampton to County Antrim, linking an English literary upbringing with a later life in Ireland.
2 Audiobooks
Christmas, A Happy Time A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons
by Alicia Catherine Mant
The Blue Jar Story Book
by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Alicia Catherine Mant
About the author
Born in Southampton on July 15, 1788, she was the youngest of nine children of the Rev. Richard Mant and Elizabeth Roe Mant. Her family was deeply connected to church and education, and one of her brothers, Richard Mant, later became a bishop in Ireland.
She became a prolific 19th-century writer of children's stories, known for fiction with clear moral lessons. Sources describe her work as children's novels and stories with a strongly moral tone, and records of her published works include titles such as Christmas, a Happy Time and The Cottage in the Chalk-pit.
In 1835, she married the Rev. James Russell Phillott, who was fourteen years younger than she was. She died on February 26, 1869, in Ballymoney, County Antrim.