Gladys L. Adshead (1896–1985)
Author of An Inheritance of Poetry
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Works by Gladys L. Adshead
Brownies - Hurry! 4 copies
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- Canonical name
- Adshead, Gladys L.
- Legal name
- Adshead, Gladys Lucy
- Birthdate
- 1896-04-25
- Date of death
- 1985
- Gender
- female
- Birthplace
- Manchester, England, UK
- Place of death
- Santa Rosa, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Manchester, England, UK
Maryland, USA
Illinois, USA
Santa Rosa, California, USA - Education
- Froebel Educational Institute
- Occupations
- Teacher
Children's Author - Short biography
- Gladys Lucy Adshead (1896–1985) was a British-born writer of children's books.
Adshead was born in Manchester, England, to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead. She was educated at Froebel Educational Institute, a teacher training college. She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England, where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers, and later in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois in the United States.
Gladys Adshead was best known for her "Brownie" books, the first of which was published in 1938 by Oxford University Press and entitled Brownies - Hush!. She died in Santa Rosa, California in 1985.
(source: Wikipedia)
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- Works
- 11
- Members
- 97
- Popularity
- #194,532
- Rating
- 4.6
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 8