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Maggie Browne
1864–1937
Best remembered for imaginative children's books, this English writer published under the pen name Maggie Browne and created stories that mixed adventure, humor, and fantasy. Her best-known title, Wanted, a King, helped keep her name alive long after her lifetime.
1 Audiobook
A Big Temptation
by L. T. Meade, Maggie Browne, M. B. Manwell
About the author
Born Margaret Andrewes, née Hamer, in 1864, she wrote as Maggie Browne and became known as an English author of fiction and non-fiction for children. She came from a literary family: her mother, Sarah Sharp Hamer, was also a novelist who wrote under several pen names.
Her work ranged across children's literature, but she is especially remembered for Wanted, a King, an Alice in Wonderland–style fantasy. That playful, dreamlike side of her writing is a big part of why readers still come across her books today.
She died in 1937. Although she is not as widely known now as some of her contemporaries, her stories remain part of the rich world of late Victorian and early 20th-century children's books.