Alice nee Turner Curtis (also known as Mrs. Irving Curtis), was an American author of children’s books. She was popular for the Grandpa’s Little Girls series (1907- 1912), the Little Maid series (1913-1937) and the Yankee Girl series (1920-1930) which were all published by the Penn Publishing Company. Some of her works include: Grandpa’s Little Girls (1907), The Little Heroine at School (1909), A Little Maid of Province Town (1913), A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony (1914), A Little Maid of Narragansett Bay (1915), A Little Maid of Bunker Hill (1916), A Little Maid of Ticonderoga (1917), A Little Maid of Old Connecticut (1918), A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia (1919), A Challenge to Adventure (1919), A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter (1920), A Little Maid of Old Maine (1920), A Little Maid of Old New York (1921), A Little Maid of Virginia (1922), A Little Maid of Maryland (1923), A Little Maid of Mohawk Valley (1924), A Yankee Girl at Gettysburg (1926), A Little Maid of Vermont (1927), A Little Maid of New Orleans (1930), A Frontier Girl of Massachusetts (1930), A Frontier Girl of New York (1931) and A Little Maid of Valley Forge (1937).