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Frances Browne Arthur
d. 1920
An Irish-born writer of children's fiction, she published warm, morally minded stories for young readers and also wrote under the pen name Ray Cunningham. Her best-known surviving work today is Two Little Travellers, a domestic adventure set against the backdrop of the South African War.
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Two little travellers : A story for girls
by Frances Browne Arthur
About the author
Born in 1854, Frances Browne Arthur was an Irish-born children's author. Reference sources consistently identify her as the daughter of the Rev. John Browne, a Presbyterian minister in Manorcunningham, County Donegal, and note that she also published under the pseudonym Ray Cunningham.
She is remembered chiefly for writing fiction for younger readers. Her novel Two Little Travellers: A Story for Girls has remained accessible through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep her work in circulation long after her death in 1920.
Some sources also describe her as a niece of the blind Irish poet Frances Browne, suggesting a family connection to an earlier literary figure. Details about her life are otherwise sparse, so the surviving picture is of a writer known more through her books than through a widely documented public career.