Meadows Grass Tales of New England Life

by Alice Brown

"Meadow Grass" by Alice Brown. Many of the earliest books particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable high quality modern editions using the original text and artwork.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1895

About the author

Aka Martin Redfield.

Alice Brown was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories. She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family.

Reviews

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alice Brown (1857-1948) is a fine representative of the American local color authors of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, and should appeal to anyone who enjoys Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs. Meadow-Grass: Tales of New England Life (1896), like subsequent books, is set in “the fictional village of Tiverton, a farming community close to the sea and modeled after” her home town of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. Although the title makes the book sound rather harmless and genteel, the story “Told in the Poorhouse” is quite dark (and has a plot point in common with the movie The War of the Roses). 

[Mariacarla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful stories.