Browne, Maurice (1881-1955)

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Jane Addams to Frederick Paul Keppel, February 11, 1915

Secretary to Jane Addams to Frederick Paul Keppel, February 16, 1915

Jane Addams to Henry S. Haskell, February 26, 1915

Alice Peloubet Norton to Jane Addams, April 19, 1915

Gilbert Murray to Jane Addams, August 27, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, September 22, 1915

Scolds the Pacifists; Women Are Indignant, October 17, 1915

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay to Jane Addams, October 29, 1916

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Irene Nye, April 25, 1917

Jane Addams to Maurice Browne, March 26, 1915

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Maurice Browne April 25, 1917

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Birth Date

1881-02-12

Death Date

1955-01-21

Birthplace

Reading, England

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Maurice Browne was a theatrical director and producer, a poet, and an actor in the U.S. and the UK. He attended Cambridge University and then became a teacher in India. He immigrated to the United States in 1910. Browne and his wife were founders of the Little Theatre Movement and the department of drama at the Cornish School in Seattle.

Browne married Ellen Van Volkenburg in 1912. Browne died in 1955.

Browne appears in many of Addams' papers, as the two of them worked together on a production of Euripides' "The Trojan Women" put on by the Chicago Little Theatre Company in 1915.