George Douglas Brown

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George Douglas Brown (1869 - 1902), novelist, who sometimes used the pen name George Douglas, wrote The House with the Green Shutters, which gives a strongly outlined picture of the harder and less genial aspects of Scottish life and character. It may be regarded as a useful supplement and corrective to the more roseate presentations of the kailyard school of J. M. Barrie and "Ian Maclaren". It made a considerable impression. The author died of pneumonia almost immediately after its publication. There is an edition with a memoir by Andrew Lang. In 1898 he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the clubs annual dinner

The novel was recently re-issued by Birlinn publishing in Edinburgh. An annual event in Brown's memory The Green Shutters Festival of Working Class Writing is held each year in his birthplace Ochiltree, in East Ayrshire (believed to be the model for "Barbie" the village in his most famous novel).

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.