Her real name was Mary Alice Brandon; she had a sister and a niece; she was given electro-shock therapy because she had visions; her parents sent her to a mental institute and pretened that she was dead.
Its very hard to explain. It says it in New Moon. I think it was that a hunter, I think it was actually James, tried to hunt her down. ( It was probably someone els) She befriended an old vampire and...
The reason Alice doesn't remember is because when she was bitten she was in the dark. The person who made her a vampire first found her in an asylum because of her visions.
She was committed to a psychiatric ward for being able to see the future she has absolutely no memory of that James use to work in psyc ward and he Is the vampire who actually turned her into what...