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 Cornwell (‘Phil’) Robinson. In 1888 her friend Fergus Hume wrote a novel, "Madame Midas" about a "Mrs Villiers" which was obviously based on Cornwell. Cornwell sold the "Sunday Times" in 1893 to Frederick Beer, who already owned "Observer". Beer appointed his wife, Rachel Sassoon Beer, as editor. Cornwell's estranged first husband died in 1893 and she married Robinson in 1894. Cornwell died in 1932 in Hove. Alice Cornwell Alice Ann Cornwell or Alice Whiteman or Alice Robinson (1 January 1852 – 7 January 1932) was a British goldmining industrialist and newspaper proprietor. She made her fortune from gold and floated her