Born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, on December 5, 1856, Alice Brown attended a local school and Robinson Seminary in nearby Exeter, from which she graduated in 1876. She then taught school for several years in a number of New Hampshire towns and in Boston, meanwhile contributing short stories to various magazines. Her success as a writer allowed her to give up teaching and move to Boston in 1884. She found a position on the staff of the Christian Register and in 1885 on that of the Youth╒s Companion, with which she was associated for some years. Her first novel, Stratford-by-the-Sea, was published in 1884 and was followed by Fools of Nature, 1887, and Meadow Grass, 1895.
In 1895 she collaborated with her close friend Louise I. Guiney on Robert Louis Stevenson: A Study, and in 1896 she published By Oak and Thorn, a volume of travel impressions of England, and The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Thereafter novels and collections of stories appeared at a rapid rate under such titles as The Day of His Youth, 1897, Tiverton Tales (perhaps her best work), 1899, King╒s End, 1901, Margaret Warrener, 1901, The Mannerings, 1903, The Merry Links, 1903, Judgment, 1903, High Noon, 1904, Paradise, 1905, The Country Road, 1906, Rose MacLeod, 1908, Country Neighbors, 1910, The Secret of the Clan, 1912, Robin Hood╒s Barn, 1913, Bromley Neighborhood, 1917, Homespun and Gold, 1920, Old Crow, 1922, and The Mysteries of Ann, 1925. She also wrote a volume of poems, The Road to Castalay, 1896, and several plays, including Children of Earth, which in 1914 won a $10,000 competition sponsored by producer Winthrop Ames and which was a critical success but a popular failure; other plays were The Golden Ball, 1929, The Marriage Feast, 1931, and The Kingdom in the Sky, 1932. Her dialect tales of New Hampshire folk gradually lost their appeal as popular interest in local-color writing waned early in the century, and she never again attained the success of her work in that vein. In 1921 she published a biography of Louise Guiney. She wrote nothing after 1935, and she died in Boston on June 21, 1948.
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