Mary Dow Brine (1838-1925)[1] was an American poet, novelist, and lyricist.
Her best-known poem is "Somebody's Mother," and her most noteworthy book was "My Boy and I or On the Road to Slumberland," an elegant book illustrated by Dora Wheeler and produced as part of a brief foray into publishing by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
[2] Brine was born in New York City[3] to William and Caroline Northam.
She had two sisters, Lucia Anna Northam (d. 1913) and Caroline Augusta Northam, an illustrator of children's books, whose work appears alongside Brine's from time to time.
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