Balfour, Alice Blanche (1851 - 1936)
| Short name | Balfour, Alice Blanche |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/68765579/ |
| First name | Alice |
| Birth name | Blanche Balfour |
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| Date of birth | 1851 |
| Date of death | 1936 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | - |
| Place of death | - |
| Lived in | England |
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| Memberships | The Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship |
| Place(s) of Residence | England |
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| Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon (1895) | 0 | 0 |
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Riedi, Elizabeth L., Imperialist Women in Edwardian Britain: The Victoria League 1899-1914. (PhD Thesis submitted at University of St. Andrews, 1998)
Year of birth according to England Wales and Scotland Census for Whittingham House, Whittingehame, Dunbar, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Scotland.
Spent much of her adult life living with her brother Arthur, for whom she acted as a housekeeper.
According to Riedi, "biographers agree in describing her as one of the family 'casualties', permanently scarred by the strength of their mother's personality. [etc.] 'She was never married and hated men; she was full of repressed grudges and secret sorrows; she was a hoarder and had an over-weening jealousy of [her brother] Arthur's friends' [citation from Kenneth Young, Arthur James Balfour (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1963) p.11] ." (Riedi, p.2)
Made a journey by horseback and ox-waggon through African Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and wrote about the expedition in 'Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon' (see Riedi, p.3)