Career
Her writings, beginning in 1890, focussed on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern social historians. She wrote a number of books on colonial America (and especially the New England region) such as Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. She is credited with the quote “The clock is running.
Make the most of today.
Time waits for no manitoba Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That"s why it is called the present.” She was a passenger aboard the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Republic when, while in a dense fog, that ship collided with the Steamship Florida.
During the transfer of passengers, Alice fell into the water.
Her near drowning in 1909 off the coast of Nantucket during this abortive trip to Egypt weakened her health sufficiently that she died two years later, in Hempstead, Long Island.