Brotherton, Alice Williams (1848–1930)

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Brotherton, Alice Williams (1848–1930)

American poet and magazine writer. Born Alice Williams in Cambridge, Indiana, 1848; died 1930; dau. of Ruth Dodge (Johnson) Williams and Alfred Baldwin Williams; educated in various private schools, as well as St. Louis Eliot Grammar School and Woodward High School of Cincinnati; m. William Ernest Brotherton, 1890; children: 2 sons, 1 daughter (eldest son died 1890).

Contributed prose and verse to periodicals such as The Century, The Atlantic and The Independent; books include Beyond the Veil (1886), What the Wind Told the Tree-Tops (prose and verse for children), The Sailing of King Olaf, and Other Poems (1887); was in attendance at the Congress of Women in Chicago (1893), contributing the poem "The Feast of Columbia, 1493–1893."

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