Author:Alice Werner

Alice Werner
(1859–1935)

Writer and poet. Post-1893, her writings were focused on African themes. Professor of Swahili and Bantu at the University of London.

Alice Werner


Works

  • A time and times; ballads and lyrics of East and West (1886) (external scan)
  • O'Driscoll's Weird (1892)
  • The humour of Italy (with Arturo Faldi) (1892) (external scan)
  • The humour of Holland (with Dudley Hardy) (1893) (external scan)
  • The Captain of the Locusts (1899)
  • Chapenga's White Man (1901) (external scan)
  • The natives of British Central Africa (1906) (external scan)
  • The language-families of Africa (1915) (external scan)
  • Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Language (1919) (external scan)
  • Myths and legends of the Bantu (1932) (external scan)

Individual poems

Contributions to Folk-Lore

  • "Some Notes on Zulu Religious Ideas" in Folk-Lore, 32 (1921), pp. 28–44.

Works about Werner

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1935, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 89 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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