[1] Her mother, Julia Gijsemans, was born in Putte, nearby Mechelen,[1] where Alice spent much time during her childhood.

During her stay in the Sint-Jozefsinstituut she wrote two collections of poems: Vondelingskens (1920)[1] and Op zachte vooizekens (1921), through which she became enormously popular, and no less than a quarter million copies were sold.

Her poems testify of a love for nature, admiration for simple things and grieve for own and interwoven with other people's suffering, and with a religious inspiration.

After she had spent some time in the Landes and in Paris, she returned to Antwerp, and underwent still new medical treatment in The Hague and Amsterdam.

She enjoyed her regained freedom, traveled as a celebrated poet through Flanders and the Netherlands and made many friends among artists.

Her health deteriorated and she spent the last year of her life at her apartment in the Carnotstraat (in nr 17) in the centre of Antwerp.