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Brown, Alice, 1857-1948
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 Alice Brown (December 5, 1856-June 21, 1948) was an American novelist, poet and playwright, most famous as a writer of local color stories. 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 worked as a schoolteacher after that, but moved to Boston to write full-time in 1884, where she worked at the Christian Register and, 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. Works
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". References
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This biographical information was gathered from the Alice_Brown_%28writer%29 page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksMeadow Grass Tales of New England LifeTiverton Tales Tiverton Tales The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors |
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