Alice Mary Gordon

Alice Mary Gordon (c. 1855 – 18 June 1929) was a British author and writer on the aesthetics of domestic electricity.[1] Gordon was born Alice Mary Brandreth in Shimla about 1855 to Edward Lyall Brandreth and Louisa Marriott. Her father was a Justice of the Peace and Member of the Council of India. She was their only child. During her life she was known by her husbands' names, making her Alice Gordon or Mrs J E H Gordon[2] as well as Alice Butcher, Mrs John Butcher and Lady Danesfort.[3][4]

Alice Mary Gordon
Bornc. 1855
Shimla
Died18 June 1929
NationalityUnited Kingdom

Bibliography
  • Decorative Electricity, 1891
  • Eunice Anscombe, 1892
  • Women as students in design, 1894
  • Memories of George Meredith, 1919

References and sources
  1. Houghton, W.E.; Slingerland, J.H. (1989). The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-8020-2688-0. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  2. "Decorative Electricity" (PDF).
  3. "Person Page". Main Page. 1901-02-01. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  4. "Person Page". Main Page. 1901-02-01. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  5. Gordon, Alice (1894). "Women as Students of Design". Fortnightly Review. new series 55: 521–27.
  6. Gordon, Alice (1891). Decorative Electricity. London: Sampson Low, Marston. p. 156.
  7. Gooday, G. (2015). Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-31401-1. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  8. "Person Page". Main Page. 2015-03-22. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  9. Henson, L.; Cantor, G.; Dawson, G.; Noakes, R.; Shuttleworth, S.; Topham, J.R. (2017). Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media. The Nineteenth Century Series. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-94684-1. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  10. "Decorative Electricity, by Mrs. J. E. H. Gordon: Alice Mary Brandreth Butcher, Mrs. James Edward Henry Gordon , illus Herbert Fell". Internet Archive. 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  11. Zhulin, Denis Larionov & Alexander. "Book Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Volume 1) by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies online for free (page 75 of 256)". Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  12. Atkinson, Damian, ed. (2014). The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell: Poet and Essayist. EBSCO ebook academic collection. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-4438-6356-8.
  13. Terry, R. C., ed. (1996). Robert Louis Stevenson: Interviews and Recollections. University of Iowa Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-87745-512-7.
  14. "Lady Danesfort". The Guardian. 18 June 1929. p. 12.
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