Alicia Catherine Mant

Alicia Catherine Mant (15 July 1788 – 26 February 1869) was a 19th-century English writer of children's stories which tended to have strong moralistic underpinnings.

She was born Alicia Catherine Mant to Rev.

Her father was the King Edward's Grammar School headmaster and he was rector of All Saints in Southampton.

She wrote a number of novels and produced at least one game before marrying a man fourteen years her junior in 1835.

Mant died 26 February 1869 in Ballymoney, County Antrim.