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Alice Jones (director)
Alice Jones may refer to: * Alice Gray Jones (1852–1943), Welsh poet and editor *Alice Ilgenfritz Jones (1846–1906), American writer and novelist *Alice Jones (author) (1853–1933), Canadian author and travel essayist * Alice Jones (poet), American poet and physician * Alice Jones (skier) (born 1976), Australian Olympic alpine skier *Alice Jones (swimmer), participated in Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games *Alice Eleanor Jones (1916–1981), American science fiction writer and journalist *Alice Palache Jones (1907–1989), American banker *Alice Jones, character in the TV series ''Casey Jones John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Ce ...'' See also * Mary Alice Jones (1898–?), author of religious books for children {{hndis, Jones, Alice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Gray Jones
Alice Gray Jones ( Jones; December 1852 – 17 April 1943), Order of the British Empire, OBE was a Welsh people, Welsh writer and editor, known by the pseudonym Ceridwen Peris (referencing Saint Peris, the origin of placenames from her native region, such as Llanberis and Llyn Peris). She was an active temperance movement, temperance campaigner, and a co-founder of the North Wales Women's Temperance Union (Undeb Dirwestol Merched Gogledd Cymru). Early life and career She was born to David and Ellen Jones in the village of Trefor, Gwynedd, Trefor, Gwynedd, near Llanberis, close to where her father's family owned a woollen mill. Her mother was a cousin of the prominent minister and writer John John Roberts, known as Iolo Caernarfon. After being educated at Dolbadarn Primary School and at Swansea Training College, she worked as a schoolteacher, eventually becoming head of the school at Dolbadarn which she had attended as a child. In 1881, she married the Rev William (or Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll * ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor * ''Alice'' (Hermann book), a 2009 short story collection by Judith Hermann Computers * Alice (computer chip), a graphics engine chip in the Amiga computer in 1992 * Alice (programming language), a functional programming language designed by the Programming Systems Lab at Saarland University * Alice (software), an object-oriented programming language and IDE developed at Carnegie Mellon * Alice mobile robot * Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity, an open-source chatterbot * Matra Alice, a home micro-computer marketed in France * Alice, a brand name used by Telecom Italia for internet and telephone services Video games * '' Alice: An Interactive Museum'', a 1991 adventure game * ''American McGee's Alice' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Jones (author)
Alice C. Jones (pen name, Alix John; August 25, 1853 – February 27, 1933) was a Canadian novelist and travel writer. Biography Jones was born and educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Alfred Gilpin Jones and Margaret Wiseman Stairs. In the 1880s and 1890s she travelled to Europe and the West Indies. During her travels, she wrote short stories for a number of magazines including ''The Week'' and '' Frank Leslie's Monthly''. Her visits to places in the Mediterranean led to the publication of a series of travel essays which appeared in ''The Week''. When she returned to Halifax after her travels, she turned to writing novels. Her first novel, ''The Night Hawk'' was published in 1903 under the pen name, "Alix John". In 1905, she moved to Menton, France and remained there until her death in 1933. The women in Jones' stories are prominently strong of character which was unusual at the time. Many of her books featured Canadian themes of wildern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Jones (poet)
Alice Jones is an American poet, physician, and psychoanalyst. Her most recent collection of poetry is ''Plunge'' (Apogee Press, 2012). Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Antioch Review,'' ''Ploughshares,'' ''Poetry,'' ''The Boston Review,'' ''The Denver Quarterly,'' and ''Chelsea''. Her honors include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a training and supervising analyst on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and practices in Berkeley, California. She is also co-editor of Apogee Press. Awards * 2013, "Plunge" was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry * 2009, First Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Award * 2006, Lyric Poetry Award (Poetry Society of America) * 2001, Robert H. Winner Award (Poetry Society of America) * 1999, Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award * 1992, Beatrice Hawley Award * 1994, NEA fellowship in poetry. Published works Full-len ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Jones (skier)
Alice Jones (born 16 May 1976 in Timmsvale, New South Wales) is an Australian Olympic alpine skier. She competed in three events at the 2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation .... References External links * * * 1976 births Living people Australian female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Australia Sportswomen from New South Wales {{Australia-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Jones (swimmer)
Alice Jones is an American international swimmer who swam for the Cincinnati Marlins. At the 1970 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Outdoor Swimming Championships, Jones won two gold medals, setting world records in the 100- and 200-meter butterfly. The next summer, at the 1971 Pan American Games, she won a silver medal in the 200-meter butterfly. She was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1970 by ''Swimming World''. Jones attended the University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 .... References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American female butterfly swimmers World record setters in swimming Swimmers at the 1971 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Eleanor Jones
Alice Eleanor Jones (1916 – 1981) was an American science fiction writer and journalist. Biography Jones was born on 30 March 1916 in Philadelphia, to Henry Stayton Jones and Lucy A. Jones (née Schuler). Her father was a photoengraver for a publishing firm. She had one sister. Jones got her bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1936 and her Ph.D. in English literature from the same university in 1944. She married another graduate student and speculative fiction author Homer Nearing Jr. and they moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The couple had two sons, Geoffrey and Gregory. Jones had a long career in publishing for a number of magazines including Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, Woman’s Day, American Girl, and Seventeen. She published articles which were both fiction and nonfiction. She wrote for these journals until the 1960s. During 1955 she published briefly in genre magazines and her work has since been reissued by Strang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Palache Jones
Alice Helen Palache Jones (April 12, 1907 – June 12, 1989) was an American banker. Background Alice Helen Palache was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Palache and Helen Harrington Markham Palache. Her father was a Harvard professor and mineralogist; her mother was a teacher. Palache graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1928, and was close to her classmate, Katharine Hepburn. The two women traveled in Europe together as students. At Bryn Mawr, she played tennis, basketball, and field hockey. She was also active in dramatics and glee club, and president of the Undergraduate Association in her senior year. Career Palache was executive director of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control from 1930 to 1933, working with Margaret Sanger. In 1933, she began working at the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York as a trainee. She worked at the Fiduciary Trust Company until her retirement in 1974, as senior vice president of the company. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Jones (TV Series)
''Casey Jones'' is an American Western series syndicated during the 1957–58 television season. It was based upon the life of late 19th-century engineer Casey Jones in the era of pioneering western railroads. ''Casey Jones'' also aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom and on the Seven Network in Australia. Synopsis The series is set in the late 19th century, featuring the adventures of railroad engineer Casey Jones and the crew of the Cannonball Express steam locomotive, fireman Wallie Sims and conductor Redrock Smith, working for the Midwest and Central Railroad. Casey lived in the fictional Missouri town of Midvale, within commuting distance of St. Louis, with his wife, Alice, their young son, Casey, Jr., and their dog Cinders. Although there really was a famous locomotive engineer named Casey Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad, the television series is only loosely based on him. His train is named "Cannonball Express" (the real Jones' locomotive, #382, was nicknamed "Cann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
