author
Alice Brown
1857–1948
A keen observer of New England life, this American writer built a long career from short stories, novels, poetry, and plays, earning particular notice for her regional fiction. Her work blends quiet emotional insight with a strong sense of place.
11 Audiobooks
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
by William Dean Howells, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt
The Day of His Youth
by Alice Brown
Three Heroines of New England Romance Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown
by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alice Brown, Louise Imogen Guiney
Country Neighbors
by Alice Brown
Meadow Grass: Tales of New England Life
by Alice Brown
Rose MacLeod
by Alice Brown
Tiverton Tales
by Alice Brown
Tiverton Tales
by Alice Brown
Old Crow
by Alice Brown
Louise Imogen Guiney
by Alice Brown
The Prisoner
by Alice Brown
About the author
Born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, in 1857, she became known as an American novelist, poet, and playwright whose writing was closely tied to New England settings and characters. Reference sources consistently describe her as a writer of local-color or regional fiction, and she also worked across several forms rather than limiting herself to one kind of writing.
Before she was widely established as an author, she studied at Robinson Seminary in Exeter and taught school while sending short stories to magazines. That steady start helped lead to a prolific literary life, and she later contributed to the collaborative novel The Whole Family.
She died in Boston in 1948. Today, she is remembered as a versatile writer whose stories helped preserve the textures of everyday New England life, from its communities and landscapes to its private hopes and tensions.