Alice Wellington Rollins

Alice Wellington Rollins (June 12, 1847 – December 5, 1897), was an American writer whose output spanned essays, novels, stories, and children's poetry.

She became known for a series of articles on the terrible conditions in New York tenements in the 1880s and for travel writing about the American West.

[1] For a time they lived in Lawrence Park, a development in Bronxville that attracted many artists and writers.

She also worked as an editor, wrote children's stories and poetry for publications like St. Nicholas Magazine, and compiled a collection of aphorisms.

[4] When she died, the writer Kate Douglas Wiggin wrote this in tribute: "Her literary work was brilliant, vigorous, original, poetic, by turns.