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Gladys Adshead
Born(1896-04-25)April 25, 1896
Manchester, England
Died1985 (aged 88–89)
Alameda County, California
OccupationTeacher, headmistress, author
EducationFroebel Educational Institute
GenreChildren's books
Notable worksBrownies-Hush!
Brownies - It's Christmas!
Smallest Brownie's fearful adventure
Brownies, They're Moving!
Smallest Brownie and the flying squirrel

Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25, 1896 – 1985) was a British-born teacher, headmistress, and writer of children's books, known for her "Brownie" books, including Brownies-Hush! (1938), Brownies - It's Christmas! (1955), Smallest Brownie's fearful adventure (1961), Brownies, They're Moving! (1970), and Smallest Brownie and the flying squirrel (1972).

Biography

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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.[1][2] She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England,[3] where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers, and later in Maryland,[1] Massachusetts,[4] and Illinois in the United States.[1]

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! and illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones.[5][6] Jones also illustrated Adshead's 1945 book What Miranda Knew.[7]

In 1947, Adshead collaborated with George H. Shapiro, with her writing the lyrics and Shapiro writing the music for songs in Seventeen to Sing.[8] She worked with Annis Duff to assemble poems for children in a collection called An Inheritance of Poetry;[9] the book was one of fourteen noted as distinguished books in 1948 by the Children's Library Association.[10]

She died in Alameda County, California in 1985.[1]

Selected works

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  • Adshead, Gladys L. (1938). Brownies--hush!. Elizabeth Orton Jones. New York: H.Z. Walck. ISBN 0-8098-1003-4. OCLC 1058000.[11]
  • Adshead, Gladys L. (1939). Something Surprising. Oxford University Press.[12]
  • Adshead, Gladys L. (1943). Casco. Oxford University Press.[13]
  • Adshead, Gladys L. (1955). Brownies - It's Christmas!. Henry Z. Walck, Inc.[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Gladys Lucy Adshead papers - Archives West". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ Ann Evory (1978). Contemporary authors : a bio-bibliographical guide to current authors and their works First revision. Vols 29-32. Internet Archive. Gale Research Co. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-8103-0035-4.
  3. ^ "A smiling exchange". Manchester Evening News. 18 February 1948. p. 1. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Society". The Boston Globe. 13 April 1959. p. 13. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  5. ^ Cary, Alice (2005). "Twig's Vision". The Horn Book Magazine; Boston. 81 (5): 629–634 – via ProQuest.
  6. ^ Stockwell, Alice E. (16 November 1938). "Beauty in Books". Nashville Banner. p. 16. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Books for Boys and Girls". The Spokesman-Review. 4 November 1945. p. 17. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  8. ^ Palmer, Lois (16 February 1947). "SEVENTEEN TO SING. Lyrics by Gladys L. Adshead. Music by George H. Shapiro. Pictures by Decie Merwin. 39 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $2.50". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  9. ^ Reviews for An Inheritance of Poetry
  10. ^ Stewart, Margaret (1949). "The Educational Scene". Elementary English. 26 (5): 288–292. ISSN 0013-5968. JSTOR 41383644.
  11. ^ Review for Brownies-Hush!
  12. ^ Review for Something Surprising
  13. ^ Review for Casco
  14. ^ Reviews for Brownies - It's Christmas!
  15. ^ Review for Smallest Brownie's fearful adventure
  16. ^ Review of Brownies, They're Moving!
  17. ^ Review of Smallest Brownie and the flying squirrel
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Bibliography

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  • Commire, Anne. Something About the Author, Volume 3. Gale Research 1972