Alice Brown

Alice Brown (December 5, 1857 – June 21, 1948) was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories. She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family.

Biography She was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and graduated from Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter in 1876. She later worked as a school teacher for five years, 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.

Brown is believed to have had a long-term relationship with Louise Imogen Guiney and wrote of their travels together in her book By Oak and Thorn (1897) and later wrote the biography Louise Imogen Guiney — a Study (1921).

Brown was a prolific author for many years, but her popularity waned after the turn of the 20th century. She produced a book a year until she stopped writing in 1935. The One-Footed Fairy (1911) stories The Secret of the Clan (1912) My Love and I (1912) novel Robin Hood's Barn (1913) Vanishing Points (1913) stories Joint Owners in Spain (1914) Children of Earth (1915) play Bromley Neighborhood (1917) novel The Prisoner (1916) novel The Flying Teuton (1918) stories The Black Drop (1919) novel Homespun and Gold (1920) stories The Wind Between the Worlds (1920) novel One-Act Plays (1921) Louise Imogen Guiney — a Study (1921) biography Old Crow (1922) novel Ellen Prior, (1923) verse Dear Old Templeton (1927) novel The Diary of a Dryad (1932) novel The Kingdom in the Sky (1932) novel Jeremy Hamlin (1934) novel The Willoughbys (1935) novel

[Those titles not classified are individual short stories.]

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".