author
Alice Corkran
d. 1916
A lively Irish writer and editor, she helped shape late Victorian and Edwardian children's reading with fantasy, adventure, and magazine work aimed at young audiences. Her books include the much-loved Down the Snow Stairs, a dreamlike story that kept finding new readers long after her lifetime.
3 Audiobooks
Down the Snow Stairs; Or, From Good-Night to Good-Morning
by Alice Corkran
Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls
by Alice Corkran
Stories jolly: stories new: stories strange & stories true : A series of new and original tales for boys and girls from six to fourteen years old
by H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne, S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould, Fanny Barry, Frances Clare, Alice Corkran, George Manville Fenn, Agnes Giberne, Mrs. A. M. Goodhart, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid, Mrs. Molesworth, Helen A. Wilmot-Buxton, Emma Wood, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
About the author
Born in Paris in 1843 to Irish parents, Alice Corkran grew up in a literary household and went on to become a writer, journalist, and editor. She is best known for children's fiction, especially Down the Snow Stairs, along with other imaginative stories and novels written for young readers.
Corkran also worked as an editor of children's magazines, which made her an important figure in the world of popular reading for girls and boys in the late 19th century. Alongside fiction, she wrote books on art and literary subjects, showing a range that went beyond nursery and schoolroom tales.
She died in 1916. Though not as widely remembered as some of her contemporaries, her work offers a vivid glimpse of the warmth, fantasy, and moral energy that marked children's literature of her era.