Gladys Lucy Adshead Explained

Gladys Adshead
Birth Date:25 April 1896
Birth Place:Manchester, England
Death Place:Alameda County, California
Occupation:Teacher, headmistress, author
Education:Froebel Educational Institute
Genre:Children's books
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Notable Works:Brownies-Hush!
Brownies - It's Christmas!
Smallest Brownie's fearful adventure
Brownies, They're Moving!
Smallest Brownie and the flying squirrel
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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

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, Massachusetts,[4] 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! 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gladys Lucy Adshead papers - Archives West . 2022-12-16 . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
  2. Book: Ann Evory . Contemporary authors : a bio-bibliographical guide to current authors and their works First revision. Vols 29-32 . 1978 . Gale Research Co. . Internet Archive . 978-0-8103-0035-4 . 12–13.
  3. News: 1948-02-18 . A smiling exchange . 1 . Manchester Evening News . 2022-12-16.
  4. News: 1959-04-13 . Society . 13 . The Boston Globe . 2022-12-16.
  5. Cary . Alice . 2005 . Twig's Vision . The Horn Book Magazine; Boston . 81 . 5 . 629–634 . ProQuest.
  6. News: Stockwell . Alice E. . 1938-11-16 . Beauty in Books . 16 . Nashville Banner . 2022-12-16.
  7. News: 1945-11-04 . Books for Boys and Girls . 17 . The Spokesman-Review . 2022-12-16.
  8. News: Palmer . Lois . 1947-02-16 . 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. . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-12-17 . 0362-4331.
  9. Reviews for An Inheritance of Poetry
  10. Stewart . Margaret . 1949 . The Educational Scene . Elementary English . 26 . 5 . 288–292 . 41383644 . 0013-5968.
  11. Review for Brownies-Hush!
    • Lettvin . Lorelei Joy . 1962 . Stories to Dramatize . Elementary English . 39 . 8 . 766–769 . 41385376 . 0013-5968.
    • News: Buell . Ellen Lewis . 11 September 1938 . The New Books for Younger Readers . 106 . New York Times (1923-); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y] . ProQuest.
    • News: Brownies--Hush! . 16 December 2022 . . September 1, 1938.
  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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