Alicia Catherine Mant

Alicia Catherine Mant (15 July 1788–26 February 1869) was an 19th-century writer of children's stories which tended to have strong moralistic underpinnings.

She was born Alicia Catherine Mant toRev. Richard Mant and Elizabeth Roe Mant on 15 July 1788 in Southampton, Hampshire.Her father was the King Edward's Grammar School headmaster and he was rector of All Saints in Southampton. Mant was last of nine children, one of whom was Richard Mant, later a bishop in Ireland. She wrote a number of novels and produced at least one game before marrying a man fourteen years her junior in 1835. He was Rev James Russell Phillott.Mant died 26 February 1869 in Ballymoney, County Antrim. She and her husband are buried in Ballymoney, where they lived.

Her works are still included in anthologies of stories for children.