Althea ( ang, Alþea) is an English female given name. It is a variation of the Greek name '' Althaea'' (Αλθαια), which may be related to Greek ''althos'' ("healing"). Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem ("

To Althea, from Prison "To Althea, from Prison" is a poem written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the ...

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John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...

later alluded to in his own poem " Lycidas".Milton, John (1886). Homer Baxter Sprague, ed
"Milton's Lycidas"
''Paradise Lost, Books I and II''. Boston: Ginn & Co.

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Althea Braithwaite Althea Braithwaite (1940-2020), was an English children's author, illustrator, publisher and glass artist, best known for ''Desmond the Dinosaur''. Althea Braithwaite was born in Pinner, Middlesex, the younger daughter of Rosemary (née Harris) a ...

(1940–2020), English children's author, illustrator, publisher and glass artist *

Althea Bridges Althea Bridges (born 11 January 1936) is an opera singer (soprano) and music teacher. She lives in Austria. Life Born in Sydney, Australia, Bridges studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Marianne Mathy, and during the early 1960s wa ...

(born 1936), Australian opera singer and music teacher *

Althea Currier Althea Currier was an American glamour model and actress, active throughout the 1960’s. Early life Currier was born in 1941 in Baileyville, Maine and moved to Southern California in the late 1950s. She was a model and actress, noted for her ...

(born 1941), American glamor model and actress * Althea Flynt (1953–1987), fourth wife of Larry Flynt * Althea Gibson (1927–2003), American female athlete * Althea Forrest, one half of vocal duo Althea & Donna *

Althea McNish Althea McNish (1924–2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation. Born in Trinidad, McNish moved to Britain in the 1950s. She was associated with the Caribbean Arti ...

(1924–2020), British textile designer of Trinidadian origin * Althea Reinhardt (born 1996), Danish handball player *

Althea Thauberger Althea Thauberger is a Canadian visual artist, film maker and educator. Her work engages relational practices rooted in sustained collaborations with groups or communities through social, theatrical and textual processes that often operate outside ...

, Canadian artist * Althea Wynne (1936–2012), English sculptor * Althea Rae Janairo, actress aka Tia Carrere *

Altheia Jones-LeCointe Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as o ...

, Trinidadian physician and research scientist, leader of the British Black Panther Movement

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