Frances Nimmo Greene

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According to Owen (1921), in 1909, Greene resigned her position as principal of the Lafayette public school and started her job as assistant in the library division of the Alabama State department of archives and history. As journals dating 1907 record the year 1907, the 1909 date appears to be an

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Greene had five older siblings: Annie (1855–1923), John (1857–1859), Kate (1859–1870), Robert (1862–1926), and Mary (1865–1918). The Greenes were a "literary" family from their nursery days. The siblings scribbled as children, and all, more or less, continued to write in later years, but Frances

523:, but in Birmingham, she joined the Protestant Episcopal church. In 1922, Greene made an unsuccessful run for a seat on the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee. She delivered an address on behalf of the Democratic ticket in 1928. 323:

In 1907, Greene resigned as a teacher to become Assistant in charge of Library Extension, Department of Archives and History, in Montgomery, a position she held for one year. In recognition of her ability, she was elected secretary of the

231:(1924). She also wrote more than 50 short stories which were published in newspapers and magazines of national repute. In addition, Greene organized the library division of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History. 450:, was of an educative value beyond anything ever done before in this line. This series, published by Scribner's, contained in the 'Colonial' volume, a chapter, "Virginia and the Ideal of Civil Liberty", which presented the 1060:

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Versatile as she was -novelist, playwright, journalist, poet- the phase of her work in literature that stood out pre-eminently was that of her books for children. In these books, her determination to develop

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Her father, Thomas Finley Greene (1829–1905), was a clergyman, and her mother was Virginia F. Owen (1828–1905); they married in 1854. She was descended through her father from a prominent

472:, as arrangements had already been made for its production on the theater stage. A record price secured the dramatic rights to the book for the screen, which was adapted to the screen by 435:. The popularity of this book was so great that Greene and her cousin, Dolly Williams Kirk, whose poems had magazine publication, brought out in collaboration, a volume of stories of 392:. All her fiction was popular. The field of the novel never engaged Greene's entire interest. It was only one phase of her literary expression. She also wrote books for young people" 266:

showed from the first her talent. She read widely, and she inherited from her mother a passionate love for Virginia and its history-a love that evolved significantly in her work.

320:. In 1906, while serving as principal of the Capitol Hill School in Montgomery, Greene was named as temporary secretary of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History. 1792: 1797: 303:. Her talent was recognized from the beginning by editors, and their encouragement stimulated her desire to write. She contributed to that paper many letters on 1787: 1757: 1762: 1747: 1696: 565: 1777: 870:

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Greene was educated at home by her mother and at the Tuscaloosa Female College, which she attended two years, leaving school at age of 16.

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Viewed as a synthetic whole, and taken in conjunction with her earlier books on chivalry, the scope of her series of readers,

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According to Willard & Livermore (1893), Greene was born "in the late 1860s". According to VIAF, Greene was born in 1850.

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248: 499:(1929), a comedy in three acts, was accepted by the Walter Baker Company in 1929. In 1937, she co-authored 304: 38: 874: 778: 309: 221: 293:, where she taught almost immediately after her school days. While teaching in a mining town in north 1742: 1737: 1128: 451: 333: 290: 240: 76: 59: 192:; a series of patriotic readers for children; a group of one act plays; and the following novels, 481: 458: 409: 152: 1657: 1317: 1276: 1241: 1205: 1058: 1023: 926: 432: 376:

mystery. It was her first long piece of fiction, and its success was immediate. Other novels,

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Some of Greene's novels were adapted into films. Months of negotiation were required before

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in the mind of the child becomes clear. This vision was intensified by the years of the

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Greene returned to Montgomery in 1913, and thereafter devoted her time to writing.

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and other southern papers. Besides writing in prose, she sometimes wrote verse.

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She was already most favorably known in the field of children's literature by

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ancestry. Her mother's family had literary tastes for several generations.

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Frances Nimmo Greene died in Birmingham, Alabama, December 9, 1937.

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