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Alley, Anne

Main entryAlley, Anne
Birth placePrince Edward Island
Birth date22 September 1850
Death placeCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Death date9 March 1925
Identifier0141
Birth nameAnne Alley
Marital statussingle
Religious affiliationWesleyan Methodist; Episcopalian
Paid workartist
BiographyAnne Alley (1850-1925) led a quiet life as a member of an established professional family in Charlottetown. Her father Thomas Alley (1820-1900) was an architect, her brother George Alley (1844-1899) was a well-known judge, and her nephew Gordon was a prominent physician. The natural beauty of her native province of Prince Edward Island inspired her painting and poetry, some of which appeared in the local newspaper, THE EVENING PATRIOT. Her single volume, LEAFLETS OF VERSE (1923), was published near the end of her life.
Other notesSiblings: Judge George Alley (1844-1899), m. Mary Trew Blatch
ResidencesCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island (1881, 1891, 1901, 1911)
Geographic regionsPrince Edward Island
Primary genrespoetry
BooksLEAFLETS OF VERSE (1923)
PeriodicalsEVENING PATRIOT
Other artspainting (oils, watercolors)
Father's nameThomas Charles Alley
Life dates of father12 August 1820, Prince Edward Island - 17 March 1900, Charlottetown
Father's notefather immigrated from Ireland in 1818; architect; contractor; superintendent, public works, Prince Edward Island; some hold his name was "Thomas Dawson Alley" and that his father was "Thomas Charles Alley"
Mother's nameAnn MacKay
Life dates of motherPrince Edward Island - before 1881
Mother's notesometimes recorded as "M'Kay"
Biographical references"Thomas Charles Alley," on HISTORIC PLACES PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada's Historic Places (Web); 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada
Bibliographic referencesUniversity of British Columbia library
Research referencescomplete
Image creditsLine drawing by Una Vernelli (Vancouver, British Columbia).
CopyrightThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 1980-2014.