Alice Hadfield

Background

Hadfield was born Alice Mary Smyth in Cirencester on 14 December 1908.

Education

She was educated at Oxford University and Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts.

Career

Hadfield replaced Phyllis Jones as librarian at Amen House for Oxford University Press. She was also co-ordinating editor of the first edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1941). Her first published work was What happens next (A novel), published by Falcon Press in 1950.

She produced an adaption of Sir Thomas Malory"s Le morte d"Arthur and a scholarly study of Hadfield died in Cirencester in 1989.

Chatto & Windus, London, British Publishing, Gloucester, 1970. (new edition 1975) X.

Achievements

• She was also the founder, with her husband Charles Hadfield, of the South Cerney Trust in 1963. Hadfield"s second marriage was to the canal historian Charles Hadfield (1909–1996), co-founder of the publishers David & Charles, in Paddington in 1945.