Alice Prescott Smith

Alice Prescott Smith was an American novelist active in the early 1900s. Confirmed records from library and public-domain catalogs show her as the author of The Legatee (1903), Off the Highway (1904), and Montlivet (1906), with editions issued by Houghton, Mifflin.

Although detailed biographical information is scarce, surviving bibliographic records suggest a writer whose books reached a national publisher and remained in circulation long enough to be preserved by projects like Project Gutenberg, Open Library, and The Online Books Page. That lasting availability has helped keep her fiction accessible to modern readers.

Because reliable personal details are limited in the sources I could confirm, it is safest to remember her primarily through the novels themselves: thoughtful, period works from the turn of the twentieth century that still invite rediscovery.