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#OTD in 1929 – Death of historian and nationalist, Alice Stopford Green, in Dublin.
#OTD in 1929 – Death of historian and nationalist, Alice Stopford Green, in Dublin.
Born Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford in Kells, Co Meath, she lived in London where she met the historian John Richard Green. They were married in Chester on 14 June 1877. He died in 1883. John Morley published her first historical work Henry II in 1888.
In the 1890s she became interested in Irish history and the nationalist movement as a result of her friendship with John Francis Taylor. She was…
