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Alice E. (Alice Elinor) Bartlett
1848–1920
A versatile American writer and journalist, she moved easily between poetry, fiction, essays, and newspaper work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Writing under names including Birch Arnold, she brought a lively, practical voice to both literary and everyday subjects.
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A New Aristocracy
by Alice E. (Alice Elinor) Bartlett
About the author
Born in Delavan, Wisconsin, in 1848, Alice Elinor Bartlett was educated at the University of Wisconsin and went on to build a varied writing career. She is also identified in some sources as Alice Eloise Bartlett, and she wrote under pen names including Birch Arnold as well as Mrs. J. M. D. Bartlett.
Bartlett worked in journalism as well as literature, with biographical sources noting her connections to the Chicago Herald, the Chicago Chronicle, and the Detroit Journal. Alongside newspaper work, she published novels, poems, lyrics, essays, and other prose, showing the range that many professional writers of her era needed to sustain a career.
She married J. M. D. Bartlett in 1876 and later became known for books such as A New Aristocracy and Birch Leaves: Homely Verse for Homely People, with Homely Virtues and Sentiments. She died in 1920, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both the literary culture and the magazine-and-newspaper world of her time.