In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown

Brown, M. W. Diary from MWB’s time at Dana Hall boarding school. 1926–1928. Margaret Wise Brown Collection. Folder 16, Box 20. Special Collections. Westerly Library, Westerly, RI.

Brown, M. W. Margaret Wise Brown Collection. MB01. Special Collections. Westerly Public Library, Westerly, RI.

Brown, M. W. Margaret Wise Brown Papers. 1940–1952. James S. Rockefeller Jr. Personal collection.

Brown, M. W. Mouse of My Heart. New York: Hyperion, 2001.

Clark, J. Interview with author. 2014.

Gooley, L. P. “History: Before Water-skiing, There Was Aquaplaning.” Adirondack Almanack. 2012. Retrieved from www.adirondackalmanack.com/2012/07/history-before-water-skiing-there-was-aquaplaning.html.

Greeley and Brown. Presidential campaign poster. New York: H. H. Lloyd, 1872.

Jefferson, T. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1797.

“Kentucky’s First Sunday School.” Lexington Leader, 1940.

“Liberty Hall.” Liberty Hall. 2014. Retrieved from http://libertyhall.org.

Liberty Hall: An Old Kentucky Home. Louisville, KY: Liberty Hall, 1930.

Liberty Hall, Frankfort, Kentucky. Louisville, KY: Liberty Hall, 1943.

Morrissey, J. Interview with author. 2014.

O’Neill, D. Interview with author. 2014.

“Our Objectives.” Brillantmont International School. 2014. Retrieved from http://www.brillantmont.ch.

Passenger List, Ship Ordu?a. 1925. Ancestry.com.

Passport Application: Margaret and Roberta Brown. 1923. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Rauch, R. Interview with author. 1987–1995.

Rockefeller, J. S., Jr. “Margaret Wise Brown and Cumberland.” Chapter 5. Unpublished manuscript. Personal collection.

Swann, M. Promoting the Classroom and Playground of Europe: Swiss Private School Prospectuses and Education Focused Tourism Guides, 1890–1945. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, 2007. Retrieved from www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/BVAU/TC-BVAU-216.pdf.


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1928

Brown, M. W. Diary from MWB’s time at Dana Hall boarding school. 1926–1928. Margaret Wise Brown Collection. Folder 16, Box 20. Special Collections. Westerly Library, Westerly, RI.

Brown, M. W. Margaret Wise Brown Papers. 1938–1960. Archives, Q-4a. Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University.

Clark, J. Cumberland Island Saved: How the Carnegies Helped Preserve a National Treasure. Lexington, KY: Gravesend, 2014.

Clark, J. Interview with author. 2014.

“Coffee Pot.” RetroGalaxy. 2014. Retrieved from www.retrogalaxy.com/culture/party/coffee-pot.asp.

Dana Hall. Catalog. 1991.

“Dies from Broken Heart.” New York Tribune, February 10, 1907. Retrieved from http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1907-02-10/ed-1/seq-7/.

Greeley and Brown. New York: H. H. Lloyd, 1872.

Hare, M. Memories of Margaret Wise Brown. 1991.

Liberty Hall: An Old Kentucky Home. Louisville, KY: Liberty Hall, 1930.

“Lucy Carnegie’s Great Camp on Raquette Lake.” Adirondack Almanack. 2014. Retrieved from www.adirondackalmanack.com/2014/04/lucy-carnegies-great-camp-raquette-lake.html.

Rauch, R. Interview with author. 1987–1995.

Rockefeller, J. S., Jr. Interview with author. 2014.

Rockefeller, L. Interview with author. 2013–2014.

Rockefeller, N. C. The Carnegies & Cumberland Island. Cumberland Island, Camden County, GA: 1993.

Schurz, C. Letter from Senator Carl Schurz to B. Gratz Brown. Washington, D.C.: F. & J. Rives & G. A. Bailey, 1872.

Seabrook, C. Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 2004.

“Seasonal snowfall totals for Boston, MA.” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2015. Retrieved from www.noaa.gov.

Shure, K. Interview with author. 2013–2014.


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1929–1932

“The Battle for Baltimore.” National Park Service. 2015. Retrieved from www.nps.gov/stsp/learn/historyculture/battlebaltimore.htm.

Breckenridge, D. “History Repeats Itself.” Lexington Leader, 1911.

Brown, M. W. Diary from MWB’s time at Dana Hall boarding school. 1926–1928. Margaret Wise Brown Collection, Folder 16, Box 20. Special Collections. Westerly Library, Westerly, RI.

Brown, M. W. Green diary. Margaret Wise Brown Papers. 1938–1960. Archives, Q-4a. Special Collections. Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University.

Brown, M. W. Margaret Wise Brown Papers. 1938–1960. Archives, Q-4a. Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University.

Brown, M. W. Margaret Wise Brown Papers. 1940–1952. James S. Rockefeller Jr. Personal collection.

Brown, M. W. Tim diary. Margaret Wise Brown Collection. 1928–1933. Series II, Box 16. Special Collections. Westerly Library, Westerly, RI.

Brown, M. W. Unpublished manuscripts. 1936–1952. Margaret Wise Brown Papers. Acc 1-7/1993, Series 1. Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University.

“George Hueville Armistead.” Ancestry.com. 2015. Retrieved from http://person.ancestry.com/tree/18254598/person/18359026969/facts.

Hare, M. Personal letters to Dorothy Ripley, courtesy of Laurel Ripley Galloway.

Niederer, F. Hollins: An Illustrated History. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1973.

Peterson, N. Interview with author. 2015.

Rauch, R. Interview with author. 1987–1995.

Smith, W. R. L. Charles Lewis Cocke: Founder of Hollins College. Boston: Gorham Press, 1929.

The Spinster. Roanoke, VA: Hollins University, 1931.

The Spinster. Roanoke, VA: Hollins University, 1932.

Wheeler, J. P. J. “Before the Writing Program there was Margaret Wise Brown.” Paper presented at the Hollins University Alumnae Reunion, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, 2003.

Wheeler, J. P. J. Interview with author. 1993–2001.


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1934–1935

Antler, J. Lucy Sprague Mitchell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

Brown, M. W. Biographical material. Margaret Wise Brown Collection. ca. 1945. Box 19, Folder 1. MWB 01. Special Collections. Westerly Library, Westerly, RI.

Brown, M. W. Letters. 1934–1942. University Archives, F-3a. Wyndam Robertson Library, Hollins University.

Brown, M. W. Margaret Wise Brown Collection. 1910–1952. MB01. Special Collections. Westerly Public Library, Westerly, RI.

Brown, M. W. Margaret Wise Brown Papers. 1940–1952. James S. Rockefeller Jr. Personal collection.

Brown, M. W. Outgoing correspondence. 1934–1952. Margaret Wise Brown Papers. Series 5. Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University.

Brown, M. W. Bumble Bee. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

Galloway, L. R. Interview with author. 2014.

“Gertrude Stein Arrives and Baffles Reporters by Making Herself Clear.” New York Times, October 25, 1934.

Hewlett, R. Melody Sheet Music Lyrics Midi. n.p.: Richard Hewlett, 2014.

Lundell, W. Radio interview with Gertrude Stein. NBC Radio, 1934. New York.

Mitchell, L. S. Another Here and Now Storybook. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1937.

Mitchell, L. S. “Margaret Wise Brown, 1910–1952.” Children Here and Now 1, no. 1 (1953).

Niemeyer, John H. Lucy Sprague Mitchell, 1878–1967. New York: Bank Street College of Education, 1967.

Ripley, D. Interview with author. 1996.

Ripley, D. Memories of Margaret Wise Brown. 1954–1995. Laurel Ripley Galloway Collection.

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