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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 (1908).
Jun 17, 2024 · Alice Brown (born Dec. 5, 1856, Hampton Falls, N.H., U.S.—died June 21, 1948, Boston, Mass.) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and biographer who gained some note as a writer of local colour. Brown graduated from Robinson Seminary in nearby Exeter in 1876.
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Alice Brown 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. ...more. Combine Editions. Alice Brown’s books. Average rating: 3.91 · 431 ratings · 77 reviews · 140 distinct works. More books by Alice Brown…
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Alice Brown has 140 books on Goodreads with 1878 ratings. Alice Brown’s most popular book is Meadow Grass.
Although she was a well-known writer during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century, the majority of Brown’s works are no longer in print. During her lifetime, Brown wrote many novels, short stories, plays, and poems.
(1857–1948), short story writer, novelist, dramatist, poet, and essayist. Born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire (“Tiverton” in the regionalist short fiction for which she is best known), Alice Brown was ...
Alice Brown (1857-1948) was one of the last authors of New England local color, a movement which began with Rose Terry Cooke and Harriet Beecher Stowe and reached its highest popularity during the careers of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett. Critics generally consider Alice Brown's first two volumes
