Gladys Lucy Adshead
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Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25 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.
[edit] References
- Commire, Anne. Something About the Author, Volume 3. Gale Research 1972
[edit] External links
- Works by or about Gladys Lucy Adshead in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
