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 Duer Miller symphonic accompaniment), and the story was made into the 1944 film "The White Cliffs of Dover". Alice Duer Miller died in 1942 and was interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, New Jersey. The main works of Alice Duer Miller are: Alice Duer Miller Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was a writer from the U.S. whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses made an impact on the suffrage issue, and her verse novel "The White Cliffs" encouraged U.S. entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays. Alice Duer was born in