author
Francis Brown
1874–1955
Little reliable biographical information is easy to pin down for this author today, which gives the work an added air of mystery. What can be confirmed is a lifespan from 1874 to 1955 and a published presence old enough to have entered the public-domain era.
1 Audiobook
The Watsons
by Jane Austen, Francis Brown, Edith C. (Edith Charlotte) Hubback
About the author
Francis Brown appears to be a relatively obscure author, and the readily available web sources do not offer a clear, well-documented biography tied with confidence to the dates 1874–1955.
Because several different people named Francis Brown appear in library, archive, and reference records, it would be risky to combine details from those entries without stronger evidence. For that reason, this overview keeps to the few basics that can be stated cautiously: the author lived from 1874 to 1955, and the surviving works associated with the name belong to an earlier publishing era.
If you have a specific title by Francis Brown, that would make it much easier to identify the right person and build a fuller, more engaging author profile.