Author: Alice De Thoren
Author: Alice De Thoren (1854–1927)
Alternate Name(s): Drury (maiden name)
Biography: Alice de Thoren, sometimes Baroness de Thoren, was born on 25 September 1854 in Mangalore, India, the daughter of army officer Charles Harrison Drury of the Madras Staff Corps. In 1872, she married army officer Oscar William de Thoren, the elder son of the 13th Baron de Thoren (an Anglo-French title). The couple had six chlldren, including her son the 14th Baron de Thoren. The family lived in Jersey, Liverpool, and Hertfordshire. As a young married woman, de Thoren wrote a single work of fiction False and True (1877). Though well received, she did not follow it up. Her husband died in 1900 before his father but she styled herself "Baroness de Thoren" regardless. She died as the result of a car accident in April 1927 in Walton.
References: British Census (1911); Evening News (27 March 1928); Naval and Military Gazette (1 June 1872)
Fiction Titles:
- False or True, and Three Other Tales. 1 vol. London: Remington, 1877.