COOKE, ROSE TERRY 0827-1892), American writer, nee Terry, was born at West Hartford (Conn.), Feb. 17, 1827, was educated at the Hartford Female seminary, and then found em ployment as a teacher. Her intense nature soon found vent in writing, however, and before she was 20 she had contributed to many magazines. She published in 186o a volume of Poems, but after her marriage in 1873 to Rollin H. Cooke she was best known for her fresh and realistic stories, though in 1888 she published more verse in her Complete Poems. Her chief volumes of fiction, dealing mainly with New England country life, were Happy Dodd (1878), Somebody's Neighbors (1881), Root-bound and Other Sketches 0885), The Sphinx's Children and Other People's (1886), Steadfast, a novel (1889) and Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills (1891). She died at Pittsfield (Mass.), on July 18, 1892.