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Cooke, Mrs. Rose Terry

author, poet, was born in 1827 in Connecticut.

She was a New England writer well known both as a poet and a writer of short stories of notable excellence. She was the author of Poems by Rose Terry; Happy Dodd; Somebody's Neighbors; The Sphinx's Children and Other People's; Steadfast; and Huckleberries. In 1888 a complete collection of her poems was made, including the contents of her early volume and her later work in verse. The Two Villages is her best known poem, as it is one of her best. She died in 1892.