Her sister Alice also never married" and lived in all-female households with other black women teachers,  and her black women associates included Alice Dunbar Nelson, who literary historian Gloria T. Hull concludes had significant lesbian intimacies.
Alice's sister did not marry; she resided in all-female households with other black women educators and had close associations with Alice Dunbar Nelson, a black woman who is argued by literary historian Gloria T. Hull to have had important lesbian connections.