About Alexandra

Alexandra Lally Peters was born in Scotland, the daughter of a British army officer and his Italian wife. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1959, and she considers herself to be American with a British core. She holds an MA in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University, and understanding how people develop has been at the center of her adult experience. Alexandra writes essays and novels, and is a historian of the needlework and the lives of girls in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. She has a particular fascination with the experience of girls in early America, and both her sampler collection and her writing open a window into history through the work of girls and women in the pre-industrial world.