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Alice S. Deletombe

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b 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.