Author talk:Frances Elizabeth Browne

Identification

Again, as often, I could not find a single trace of this person's existence beyond scans. No matches at wikidata, findagrave, familysearch or ancestry. What we know:

• Published in Cambridge, Boston & New York, so probably American
• Published [1] in '71, and wrote a poem as early as 1838, so fl. 1838-1871
• Probably had some link to ireland, I'd bet an emigrated irish (see /106-/109) or a child of emigrants
• not Frances Browne (bibliography doesn't match, plus that person did not emigrate)

— Alien  3
3 3 18:32, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

There's an 1847 article "Nine New Poets" in the North American Review that includes Browne and her 1846 Poems. The only thing it mentions about her life is that "Mrs. Browne is an Englishwoman...".

Also, the Terre Haute Weekly Gazette published on May 22, 1879 a poem "On the Deaths of Freddie and Sadie Hollinger" that's signed by "Frances E. Browne, Elizabeth, New Jersey," which may or may not be the same person. —Tcr25 (talk) 19:36, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

The second article may or may not match, no idea (no poem in that name in Poems). Aside, we now also have the confirmation that she emigrated (/23). — Alien  3
3 3 18:31, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Confirmed Irish, too. (/112, Fontstown is in ireland). — Alien  3
3 3 09:18, 14 December 2024 (UTC)