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Katharine Holland Brown
1874–1931
A novelist of the early 1900s, she wrote lively popular fiction that moved from Midwestern life to historical settings and romance. Her books include The Hallowell Partnership, Philippa at Halcyon, and the prizewinning The Father.
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The Hallowell Partnership
by Katharine Holland Brown
About the author
Katharine Holland Brown was an American writer active in the early twentieth century. Reliable catalog and library sources connect her with a run of novels and stories published from the 1900s into the late 1920s, including Diane, Uncertain Irene, The Messenger, Philippa at Halcyon, The Hallowell Partnership, Wages of Honor and Other Stories, and The Father.
Her fiction seems to have ranged widely in subject and setting. Library descriptions point to stories about college life, Illinois and Midwestern communities, romance, and historical themes; Diane, for example, is described as a romance linked to the Icarian community on the Mississippi and the years just before the Civil War, while The Father centers on Abraham Lincoln.
A Michigan library author record also notes that she drew on stories of pioneer days and that The Father won a major Woman's Home Companion prize novel award in 1928. Sources agree that she died in 1931, and a memorial record places her death in Orlando, Florida, with burial in Quincy, Illinois.