Kenton County, KY - Bios:  Winston, Mrs. Alice Smith
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Alice Smith WINSTON 4883, Kenton Co. 

Surname: Smith, Winston

NOTE: I have no connection and no further information.

Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, 
Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Kenton County. 
The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 610.

MRS. ALICE SMITH WINSTON, Nee Smith, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, but since 1850, 
a resident of Covington, Ky., except about two years spent in Boone Co., is a lady 
of elegant culture, of fine poetic taste, and as retiring and modest about the 
productions of her pen as she is beautiful in person. The earliest published pieces 
we have seen, all short, were written about 1860, some years after her marriage to 
Alex. V. Winston, a Cincinnati merchant; and gave promise of the undisguised popularity 
of many of her pieces over the signature of "Ecila," in the Cincinnati Enquirer. 
Her latest pieces have been over another signature. From the limited number of pieces 
we find preserved by an appreciative friend, the following are selected as among the 
sweetest, but are probably not the best or most original in expression: 
[Note: Poems shown: "The Little Brown House," "After The Summer," "When Will Women Vote?" 
and "John's Letter."]