Abbie Farwell Brown

Abbie Farwell Brown (August 21, 1871 – March 5, 1927) was an American writer.

Early life and education Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the first of two daughters of Benjamin F. Brown, a descendant of Isaac Allerton, and Clara Neal Brown, who contributed to The Youth's Companion. Her sister Ethel became an author and illustrator under the name Ann Underhill. Her family, for ten generations, had only resided in New England, and Brown herself spent her entire life in her family's Beacon Hill home. She then attended the Girls' Latin School, where she was friends with Josephine Preston Peabody. She was the driving force behind the newly created school newspaper, The Jabberwock, named by Brown after the poem by Lewis Carroll. They wrote to Carroll for permission to use the name and Carroll wrote back, wishing them "all success to the forthcoming magazine". (The Jabberwock was published through 1988, when publication was ceased by Boston Latin Academy, although The Jabberwock for alumnae continues to be published by the GLS alumnae association.) After graduating in 1891, she attended Radcliffe College, graduating in 1894.

Works The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900) The Lonesomest Doll (1901) In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales (1902) A Pocketful of Posies (1902) The Curious Book of Birds (1903) The Flower Princess (1904) The Star Jewels, and Other Wonders (1905) Brothers and Sisters (1906) Friends and Cousins (1907) John of the Woods (1909) The Christmas Angel (1910) Songs of Sixpence (1914) Kisington Town (1915) Surprise House (1917) Heart of New England (1920) Round Robin (1921) The Lights of Beacon Hill: A Christmas Message (1922) The Silver Stair: Poems (1926)