Alice Martha Philpott (1866 - 1929)

Alice Martha "Alys" Philpott was a British author, a leading member of the Poetry Society, and was a writer for the Newcastle Chronicle under the pen name Margery Lee. Alys also wrote various books, including Greuze (1902) and Twenty-nine Tales from the French. In addition, she was a translator. The painter Thomas Eyre Macklin became her ex-husband.