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. 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

• 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)