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!
[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,[1] Massachusetts,[4] and Illinois in the United States.
[5][6] Jones also illustrated Adshead's 1945 book What Miranda Knew.
[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.
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