for a little flat!". She probably lived from the sales of the house and family possessions for a few years, but her decline is clearly visible in that she doesn't seem to have composed any more after 1920, her collection of correspondence ends in 1921, her diaries end in 1924, her autobiography in 1926. The "Joseph Needham Papers" in Cambridge reveal that she turned to astrology and occultism; she began to believe in the rebirthing of the dead and devoted time to so-called "spirit photography". Notices in the Irish Times and the British Medical Journal of 1933 reveal that by then she was in serious financial difficulty and had health problems, with a Dr. J.S. Crone of the Irish Literary Society organising a "testimonial". The last public notice about her is that she converted to the Catholic faith in December 1934. Selected works An Album of Hush Songs (1897) The Seventh English Edward (1902) A Bunch of Shamrocks: Irish Song Cycle for Four Solo Voices (1904) Twelve Small Songs for Small People (1904) Four Songs for Women Suffragists (1908) A Bunch of Heather: Scottish Song Cycle (1910) Army and Navy Songcycle (1912) Bibliography Annie Patterson: "Alicia Adelaide Needham", in: Weekly Irish Times, 9 June 1900 Eithne Nic Pheadair [= Annie Patterson]: "Alicia Adelaide Needham", in: The Leader 23 (1916) 14, pp. 227–8 Jennifer O'Connor & Axel Klein: "Needham, Alicia Adelaide", in: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. H. White & B. Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013) Oxford DNB References Links 1863 births 1945 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century women composers Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Alumni of the Royal College of Music Irish classical composers Irish women classical composers Irish suffragists Presidents of the National Eisteddfod of Wales