Alice Lucy Whitefoord

Biography

Alice Lucy Whitefoord lived during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period of significant social change and cultural development in England. Born in 1771, she came of age during the American Revolution and lived through the tumultuous years of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Her life reflected the experiences of women of her social standing during this transformative era.

Whitefoord's fifty-six years of life connected her to multiple generations and historical periods. Her burial at the Church of All Saints, Sudbury, alongside other notable parishioners, reflects her family's standing in the community. She died in 1827, having witnessed the gradual expansion of women's education and social awareness that would characterize the nineteenth century.