Alice Brown (writer)

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Alice Brown
Alice Brown

Alice Brown (December 5, 1856-June 21, 1948) was an American novelist, poet and playwright, most famous as a writer of local color stories.[1] She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908).

She was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and graduated from Robinson Seminary in Exeter in 1876. She later worked as a schoolteacher, but moved to Boston to write full-time in 1884. She first worked at the Christian Register and then, starting in 1885, the Youth's Companion.

She was a prolific author for many years, but her popularity waned after the turn of the century. She stopped writing after 1935.

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[edit] Works

  • Fools of Nature (1887)
  • The Rose of Hope (1896)
  • The Day of his Youth (1897)
  • Tiverton Tales (1899)
  • Margaret Warrener (1902)
  • The Story of Thyza (1909)
  • John Winterbourne's Family (1910)
  • The One-Footed Fairy (1911)
  • The Secret of the Clan (1912)
  • Robin Hood's Barn (1913)
  • Vanishing Points (1913)
  • Children of Earth (1915)
  • Bromley Neighborhood (1917)
  • The Prisoner (1916)
  • The Flying Teuton (1918)
  • Homespun and Gold (1920)
  • The Wind Between the Worlds (1920)
  • One-Act Plays (1921)
  • Louise Imogen Guiney — a Study (1921)
  • The Old Crow (1922)
  • Ellen Prior, verse (1923)
  • The Kingdom in the Sky (1932)

Another book by Alice Brown is "The Patient Sufferer", A Story For Youth. It was written for the American Sunday-School Union, and revised by the Committee of Publication. Also noted on title page: Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street. This book also has a sketch on the preceding page with the title "Where Alice Brown lived".

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Seacoast NH - Alice Brown

[edit] References

  • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 62. 

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NAME Brown, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Local color writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampton Falls, New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1948
PLACE OF DEATH
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