Alice Williams Brotherton

Alice Williams Brotherton
"A Woman of the Century"
"A Woman of the Century"
BornAlice Williams
(1848-04-04)April 4, 1848
Cambridge City, Indiana, U.S.
DiedFebruary 9, 1930(1930-02-09) (aged 81)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupationauthor
EducationSt. Louis Eliot Grammar School; Woodward High School
Genre
  • poetry
  • lyrics
  • essays
  • reviews
  • children's stories
Spouse
William Ernest Brotherton
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(m. 1876)​

Alice Williams Brotherton (née, Williams; April 4, 1848 – February 9, 1930) was an American author of poetry, essays, reviews, children's stories, and lyrics. Though she hailed from Indiana, she lived most of her life in Cincinnati, Ohio, serving as president of the Cincinnati Woman's Press Club. She wrote critical essays and addresses on Shakespeare, while many of her poems were set to music in the United States and in England. Contemporary poets of Ohio included Helen L. Bostwick and Kate Brownlee Sherwood.[1]

  1. ^ Bond, Utter & Weisenburger 1943, p. 447.