Alice Rollit Coe (1858–1940) was a Canadian emigrant to the United States,

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housewife and author. She wrote ''Lyrics of Fir and Foam'' (1908) and ''Chimes Rung by the University District Herald'' (1921).

Biography

She was born Alice Sarah Rollit in Rawdon,

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, on September 20, 1858, to John Charles Rollit and Elizabeth (née Spooner) Rollit. Her father was an Episcopal Minister, who moved his family to the United States and was living in Minneapolis with them in 1880. She had at least two sisters growing up. She married Alfred Byron Coe on November 14, 1889, in

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, and had four children with him: Charles Rollit Coe (born 1890), Winnifred Elizabeth Coe (born 1892), Algernon Sydney Coe (born 1894), and Constance Mary Coe (born 1901). In the 1920 census in Seattle she was listed as being a teacher. In the 1930 census in Seattle she was a private tutor. She died in Seattle, Washington, on December 8, 1940.

Works

Books

''Lyrics of Fir and Foam'', Etchings by L. Ross Carpenter
The Alice Harriman Company, Publishers, Seattle, 1908
''Chimes Rung by the University District Herald'', Press of University Publishing Company, Seattle, 1921

Poems in magazines and anthologies

''Life's Rose'', Out West Magazine.

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