Alice Wellington Rollins (1847–97) was an American writer, journalist, and poet known for essays, novels, and children’s literature. She gained recognition for social commentary on New York tenements and travel writing about the American West.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Rollins was educated by her father in Latin and mathematics before attending various schools. In 1876, she married Daniel M. Rollins, a New York attorney, and lived in Lawrence Park, a community of artists and writers.
She contributed to leading periodicals, including Lippincott’s Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Century Magazine, and Harper’s Magazine. She also worked as an editor, wrote children’s stories and poetry, and compiled aphorisms.
Notable works include My Welcome Beyond, and Other Poems (1877,) The Ring of Amethyst (1878,) The Story of a Ranch (1885,) Uncle Tom’s Tenement (1888,) and From Palm to Glacier (1895,) featuring travel writing.
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The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
—Alice Wellington Rollins
Topics: Questions, Teachers, Questioning, Teaching
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