Bessie Alexander Ficklen

Bessie Alexander Ficklen
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Bessie Mason Alexander November 10, 1861 Fredericksburg, Virginia, C.S.
Died	March 2, 1945(1945-03-02) (aged 83) Chatham County, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	poet, hand-puppeteer
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia Female Institute
Notable works	"A handbook of fist puppets"
Spouse	John Rose Ficklen ​ ​ (m. 1886; died 1907)​
Children	2

Bessie Alexander Ficklen (née, Alexander; November 10, 1861 – March 3, 1945) was an American poet and artist. Her essay on "Dream Poetry", appeared in one of the leading magazines of the 19th-century and attracted much attention. She wrote more for pleasure than for any monetary gain. She was also quite as clever with drawing-pencils as with her pen, and from time to time, for private circulation, published little books of rhyme—simple, jesting doggerel—written and illustrated by her own hand.^[1] She was a hand puppeteer, creating them for several decades and writing a book on the subject.