Mary Alice Harriman (March 12, 1861 – December 24, 1925) was a poet, author (of poetry, novels, short stories and non-fiction) and publisher. She was called the "only woman publisher in the world" in the 1911 Who's Who in the Northwest. She published books in Seattle between 1907 and 1910, and in New York after that, closing her publishing business in 1913.
She wrote A Man of Two Countries, Chaperoning Adrienne; a tale of the Yellowstone national park (illustrated by Charles M. Russell) and Will Thou Not Sing.
The only year in which she used the name Harriman-Browne was in 1907 in her books, including the book about Chaperoning Adrienne. The next year, she started a publishing company, using only her maiden name, Harriman. The name of her husband has not turned up, nor is it certain why he was gone.
She gave different marital statuses when asked to list whether married.
Alice was listed as single in the 1870 census (she was 9) and the 1880 census (she was 19). Most of the 1890 census was destroyed by fire. In the 1900 census and 1910 census, she is listed as divorced. In the 1920 census, as well as the Who's Who guides of 1911 and 1914, she is listed as widowed. Finally, on the Biographical Index Cards, 1781–1990, Sacramento, California: California State Library she is listed as widowed.
Harriman died in Hollywood, California, where she lived.
Harriman began publishing books in 1907 in Seattle. She continued there until 1910, moving her business to 542 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Her company was the "Alice Harriman Company, publishers of fine books".
Harriman was interested in Native American issues, and friend to Adelaide Hanscom Leeson, of the Photo Secessionist Movement. One Native-American-themed book she published was The Brand by Therese Broderick. This girl's adventure book influenced a young Nez Perce girl living in rural Idaho to become one of the first female Native American writers. That girl, Mourning Dove, wrote Cogewea.
Reminiscences of Seattle: Washington Territory and the U. S. Sloop-of-War Decatur During the Indian War of 1855-56 by Thomas Phelps, The Alice Harriman Company, Seattle, 1908 Online text
Pioneer Days on Puget Sound by Arthur Armstrong Denny, The Alice Harriman Company, Seattle, 1908 Online text
Lyrics of Fir and Foam Alice Rollit Coe, The Alice Harriman Company, Seattle, 1908 Online text
Chronicle of Oldfields by Thomas Newton Allen, The Alice Harriman Company, Seattle, 1909 Online text
Love Never Faileth by J. D. O. Powers, 1909
The Road of Life, and other poems by Marion Couthouy Smith, The Alice Harriman Company, Seattle, 1909 Online text
The Brand, a tale of the Flathead reservation by Therese Broderick, The Alice Harriman Company, Seattle 1909 Online text
Marcus Whitman, Pathfinder and Patriot by Myron Eells, The Alice Harriman Company, Seattle, 1909 Online text
Songs o' the Olympics by Alice Harriman, illustrated by B. C. Bubb, 1909
Browning; Biographical notes, appreciations, and selections from his "Fifty Men and Women" by Pauline Leavens, The Alice Harriman Company, New York; Seattle, 1910 Online text
The Diamond Spider and Other Stories by Elinor Brotherton Butler, illustrated by C.M. Dowling, The Alice Harriman Company, New York, 1910
A Man of Two Countries by Alice Harriman, The Alice Harriman Company, New York; Seattle, 1910 Online text
An Athabascan Princess by George Fenwick, illustrated by Max W. Kollm, pub. The Alice Harriman Company, New York; Seattle, 1910 Online text
Trails Through Western Woods by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, The Alice Harriman Company, New York; Seattle, 1910 Online text
The Flame by Louise E Taber, The Alice Harriman Company, New York, 1911 Online text
The Stairway on the Wall by Augusta Prescott, The Alice Harriman Company, New York, 1911 Online text
The Temptation of St. Anthony by Gustave Flaubert, The Alice Harriman Company, New York, 1911 Online text
Wilt Thou Not Sing? A Book of Verses by Alice Harriman, The Alice Harriman Company, New York 1912 Online text
Yermah the Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn Online text
Don Diego by Albert B. Reagan, The Alice Harriman Company, New York, 1914 Online text
Congress of American Aborigines at the Omaha Exposition in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, June 1899, pages 505-512, Mary Alice Harriman Online text
Pacific History Stories, Montana Edition by Alice Harriman, The Whitaker and Ray Company, San Francisco, 1903. Online text
Songs o' the Sound by Alice Harriman with illustrations by Frank Calvert, The Stuff Printing Concern, Seattle, 1906. Online text
Tillicum Tales: Seattle Writers Club; story inside Old Bill's Awkward Squad by Alice Harriman-Browne, Lowman & Hanford, Seattle, 1907. Online text
Chaperoning Adrienne: A Tale of the Yellowstone National Park by Alice Harriman-Browne, Metropolitan Press, Seattle, 1907. Online text
The Lightning Bug, by Alice Harriman and J M S Lane, The Metropolitan Press, Seattle, c1907
Lemon Juice, formerly published as Lightning Bug, c1908
Songs o' the Olympics by Alice Harriman, Alice Harriman Co., Seattle, 1909.
Redcoat and Redskin
A Man of Two Countries; chapter headings by C.M. Dowling, 1910. Online text
Wilt Thou Not Sing? A Book Of Verses, 1912 Online text
Bells and Their Overtones, 1918.
The bells of El Camino Real, 1925
