The Christmas Angel

<p>A descendant of the earliest New England settlers Abbie Farwell Brown lived all her life in the family home on Beacon Hill in Boston.</p><p> </p><p>Brown's visit in 1899 to Chester Cathedral England which inspired her first children's book The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900) and led to her career as a juvenile author.</p><p> </p><p>The best of Brown's children's books derive their charm from her appreciation of traditional popular literature-legend myth and folktale which includes of course the fairy tale.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Nourished by myth legend and the folk tale Brown contributed to children's literature of the early 20th century a number of well-written imaginative stories some pleasant verse and two distinguished versions of saints' legends and Nordic myths.</p>