Historical records matching Frances Browne
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About Frances Browne
Frances Browne
Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children: Granny's Wonderful Chair.
She was blind from infancy as a consequence of an attack of smallpox when she was only 18 months old. In her writings, she recounts how she learned by heart the lessons which her brothers and sisters said aloud every evening, and how she bribed them to read to her by doing their chores. She then worked hard at memorising all that she had heard. She wrote her first poem, a version of "The Lord's Prayer", when she was seven years of age.
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Frances Browne's Timeline
| 1816 |
January 16, 1816
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Stranorlar, County Donegal, Ireland
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| 1879 |
August 21, 1879
Age 63
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Richmond, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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