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John Brown

Scottish physician and essayist known for his three-volume Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours, 1858), containing essays and papers on art, medical history and biography. Best remembered are his dog story "Rab and his Friends" (1859) and his essays "Pet Marjorie" (1863), on Marjorie Fleming, the ten-year-old prodigy and alleged "pet" of Walter Scott, "Our Dogs", "Minchmoor", and "The Enterkine".[1] Brown was half-brother to the organic chemist Alexander Crum Brown.-Wikipedia

physician and essayist; (1810-1882)

Born	22 Sep 1810
Died	11 May 1882

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First published in 1859 — 31 editions
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by John Brown First published in 1800 — 15 editions

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by John Brown First published in 1859 — 13 editions
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Horae subsecivae.: Rab and his friends, and other papers

by John Brown
First published in 1861 — 10 editions
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Horae subsecivae

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The Great English Short-Story Writers: Vol. 1

by Daniel Defoe, James Hogg, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, John Brown, Charles Dickens, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, and 6 others First published in 2003 — 6 editions

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Spare hours

by John Brown
First published in 1861 — 6 editions
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Rab and his friends ; and Marjorie Fleming

by John Brown
First published in 1876 — 5 editions
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Marjorie Fleming: a sketch : being the paper entitled Pet Marjorie: a story of child life fifty years ago

by John Brown First published in 1863 — 5 editions

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Spare hours: First series

by John Brown First published in 1862 — 5 editions

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Arthur H. Hallam.

by John Brown First published in 1862 — 5 editions

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John Leech and other papers

by John Brown First published in 1882 — 4 editions

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Pet Marjorie: a story of child life fifty years ago

by John Brown First published in 1900 — 4 editions

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Marjorie Fleming: a sketch : being the paper entitled Pet Marjorie, a story of child life fifty years ago

by John Brown First published in 1884 — 3 editions

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Horae subsecivae: Locke and Sydenham, with other occasional papers

by John Brown First published in 1858 — 3 editions

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by John Brown First published in 1862 — 3 editions

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Spare Hours

by John Brown First published in 2016 — 3 editions

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Horæ Subsecivæ

by John Brown
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by John Brown First published in 1905 — 3 editions

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by John Brown First published in 1884 — 3 editions

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physician and essayist; (1810-1882)

Born	22 Sep 1810
Died	11 May 1882

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OLID: OL173284A
ISNI: 0000000116397303
Integrated Authority File (GND): 129013161
Library of Congress Names: n50040069
LibriVox: 10611
Project Gutenberg: 1792
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): PARV569400
VIAF: 50294912
Wikidata: Q2945624
Inventaire.io: wd:Q2945624

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Dr. John Brown
John Brown, M.D.
Джон Браўн
جان براون
جون برون
জন ব্রাউন

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