Surname: Brown Forename(s): John b. 1822. Nationality: Scottish.
Working-class poet, writing in Scots and English. Born in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire,
and lived for most of his life in Glasgow where he was a pattern maker. Author of
Snow Drifts (1874, 1883), Poems and Songs (1883), Wayside Songs, with Other Verse (1883), and Wayside Songs, with Later Lyrics (1887). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 68; The Scottish Poets Recent and Living, edited by Alexander G. Murdoch, Thomas D. Morison, 1883, pp. 266-67; Goodridge.
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