Alice Dudeney

Alice Louisa Dudeney was a British author and short story writer. The wife of Henry Dudeney, a fellow author and inventor of mathematical puzzles and games, she used the penname Mrs. Henry Dudeney for much of her literary career. She herself became a popular writer in her lifetime, often compared to Thomas Hardy for her portrayals of Sussex regional life, and had over fifty volumes of fiction published between 1898 and 1937.

Alice Dudeney was born to Frederick Whiffin, a master tailor, and his wife Susan Howe in Brighton onOctober 1864. She was educated in Hurstpierpoint, a region of West Sussex which she would use as a setting for her later novels, and later introduced to 25yearold Henry Dudeney through a mutual friend. The two were married at St. Andrew Church, Holborn, London onNovember 1884.

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