Alice B. Haven (1827–1863)

[Alice Emily Bradley].  American authoress, born in Hudson, NY, on the 13th of September 1827. Under the nom de plume of “Alice G. Lee” she wrote sketches for various papers until 1847; she took editorial charge of the Philadelphia Saturday Gazette on the death of her husband, Joseph C. Neal, its editor, her pen-name being then “Cousin Alice.” In 1853 she married Samuel L. Haven. She wrote The Gossips of Rivertown, prose and verse (1850); Helen Morton’s Trial; No Such Word as Fail; All’s not Gold that Glitters; Nothing Venture, Nothing Have; Where There’s a Will There’s a Way, and other popular stories for young people, all of a distinctly religious color. She died at Mamaroneck, NY, on the 23rd of August 1863.