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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Alice Bell Le Geyt

Author: Alice Bell Le Geyt (1839–1934)

Biography: Alice Bell Le Geyt was born in 1839 on Jersey, the daughter of Charles William Le Geyt and Emma Bell. Her maternal grandfather was the surgeon Sir Charles Bell. Throughout her life, Le Geyt was active in the suffrage and temperence movments. She wrote a single novel, Which Will Triumph? (1867). She never married and died in 1934.

References: British Census (1881, 1901, 1911); Elizabeth Crawford, The Women Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland (2013)

Fiction Titles:

  1. Which will Triumph?: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1867.