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Rebecca Warren Brown
1788–1855
A 19th-century Boston writer remembered for moral tales, children's books, and a memoir of Chloe Spear, she also wrote about her uncle General Joseph Warren and the Revolutionary era.
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About the author
Rebecca Warren Brown was an American author from Boston whose published work ranges from children's stories and school reading to biography and history. Catalog records for her books include Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, Stories About General Warren, The School, Isabel and Louisa, Tales of the Emerald Isle, and Tales of the Fireside.
A Museum of Fine Arts, Boston record identifies her as Rebecca Warren Brown and notes that she was connected to a prominent Boston medical family: she was the daughter of Dr. John Warren and a relative of General Joseph Warren, the Revolutionary figure who became the subject of one of her books. That family background helps explain her interest in memorial and historical writing as well as her place in early 19th-century Boston literary culture.
Reliable sources found here confirm her dates as 1788 to 1855, but I did not find a clearly usable portrait image from the pages available, so no profile image is included.