Marian Douglas

Marian Douglas was the pen name of Annie D. Green, later, Annie Douglas Green Robinson (1842–1913), an American poet and short story writer. Her poems appeared irregularly in various periodicals. She is best known by her poems and stories for children.

Early life and education Annie Douglas Green (misspelled, Greene) was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1842. Peter Green of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was her grandfather. He graduated from Harvard University in 1766, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War and a physician in Concord, New Hampshire, from 1772 for fifty years. Books from his library were placed in the New Hampshire Historical Society Library.

Selected works

Annie D. Green Picture Poems for Young People, 1872, 1882 (2nd ed.) (text) Peter and Polly: Or, Home-life in New England a Hundred Years Ago, 1876 (text)

Annie Douglas Green Robinson In the Poverty Year, 1901 (text) Days we remember, 1903 (text)