author
Alice Corkran
d. 1916
Remembered for lively Victorian children's fiction and magazine work, this Irish-born writer built a varied career in books and periodicals. Her life connected literary London with a family background steeped in writing and conversation.
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
Alice Abigail Corkran (1843–1916) was an Irish author best known for children's fiction, and she also worked as an editor of children's magazines. Sources available here describe her as born in France to Irish parents and raised in a literary circle shaped by her mother's salon.
She wrote novels and stories for younger readers, then later turned more toward nonfiction. Reference material found during this search also notes her connection to the wider literary world, including an oft-repeated detail that she had known the Browning family and still possessed Robert Browning's father's workbooks when she died.
Because the available image search on her main reference page only surfaced a book cover rather than a clear portrait of her, no reliable author photo has been confirmed here.