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| * ''Did she sin? an original and exciting drama in 5 acts''. (Natchez, Miss., 1873)<ref name="Dramatic1918">{{cite book |author1=Library of Congress Copyright Office |title=Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 ... |date=1918 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=2288 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjLKGXpTj-sC&pg=PA2288 |access-date=14 January 2025 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> | |||
| * ''Ho! for Elf-land!'' (San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878) () | * ''Ho! for Elf-land!'' (San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878) () | ||
| * ''Secrets Told: With Twenty-Two Piquant Illustrations From Life'' (San Francisco, Alta California Printing House, 1879) () | * ''Secrets Told: With Twenty-Two Piquant Illustrations From Life'' (San Francisco, Alta California Printing House, 1879) () | ||
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Alice Kingsbury Cooley (1839-1910) was a British-born American actress, author, and poet of New York City.
Biography
Alice Madeline James was born December 31, 1840, in Bristol, England. Her parents were David Hawes James and Harriet (Bird) James. She came to the U.S. with her parents when a child, the family settling in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Cooley made her stage debut in the early 1860s, winning considerable fame in San Francisco, California. She played throughout the country in various roles, winning distinction in Shakespeare's plays. She was characterized as a bright soubrette, the darling of the public. For several years, she was an actress in such plays as Fanchon, Juliette, Cupid at Play, Sleeping Bacchus, and others, starring in the the U.S. and Canada.
Cooley was also a well known writer of prose and verse and had several volumes of her writings published. She was the author of a child's book entitled Ho for Elfland, which sold two thousand copies in San Francisco; and a work for adults entitled Asaph, an historical novel of ancient Jerusalem. Secrets Told included sarcasm on social questions.
Personal life
In Cincinnati, she married Horace Kingsbury. She was the mother of eight children and the stepmother of three others. Frank Cooley, the actor, Earl Cooley, president of the San Francisco Galvanizing works; V. V. Cooley of Yuba City, California; Edward Cooley of Los Angeles; and Mrs. Sallie McKean of Alameda were among the children. After she retired to domestic life, raising a family, she modeled small shapes in clay, which were put into plaster.
Alice Kingsbury Cooley died in Alameda, California, November 3, 1910, after a long period of illness.
Selected works
- Did she sin? an original and exciting drama in 5 acts. (Natchez, Miss., 1873)
- Ho! for Elf-land! (San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1878) (text)
- Secrets Told: With Twenty-Two Piquant Illustrations From Life (San Francisco, Alta California Printing House, 1879) (text)
- Asaph: An Historical Novel (New York, United States Book Company, 1890) (text)
References
- ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1898). Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation. American Publishers' Association. p. 247. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1914). American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of 1914. American Publishers Association. p. 240. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "ALICE KINGSBURY COOLEY, CALIFORNIA POET, DIES". Los Angeles Herald. 5 November 1910. Retrieved 14 January 2025 – via cdnc.ucr.edu. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Mighels, Ella Sterling; World's Columbian Exposition (1893). The story of the files; a review of Californian writers and literature. San Francisco: Cooperative Printing Co. pp. 29–30. Retrieved 14 January 2025 – via Internet Archive. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Library of Congress Copyright Office (1918). Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 ... U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 2288. Retrieved 14 January 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.