A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice (United States title: "The Legacy") is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to generate economic prosperity in a small outback community — to turn it into "a town like Alice" i.e. Alice Springs. The story falls broadly into three parts. In Post-World War II London,
Alice James I knew neither hope nor peace.” Anna Robeson Brown Burr wrote a biography, "Alice James, Her Brothers – Her Journal" (1934). Jean Strouse published what has become the standard life ("Alice James: a Biography") in 1980. Strouse steered something of a middle course between Alice-as-icon and Alice-as-victim. Ruth Yeazell published James' correspondence in "The Death and Letters of Alice James" (1981). Susan Sontag wrote a play about James, "Alice in Bed" (1993), which seems to waver between sympathy and impatience with its subject. More recently, Lynne Alexander wrote a sympathetic novel about Alice James, "The Sister" (2012). Alice James Alice