The Brownies - 1895
shot - 5/19/2024keyword: 19thCentury 8/29/24 (updated 12/15/25)The Brownie Year Book is a late‑19th‑century Brownies title in which Palmer Cox’s familiar brownie characters are used to personify and describe the months of the year. It sits alongside his better‑known Brownie storybooks but is structured more like a calendar in verse and picture.Basic descriptionThe Brownie Year Book is a collection of short poems that describe the Brownies’ activities for each month, accompanied by full‑page illustrations in Cox’s characteristic comic style. Each month becomes a vignette in which different Brownie types appear, engaging in seasonally appropriate work or mischief.Format and publication contextContemporary catalog records describe it as a pamphlet‑like or calendar‑style publication, rather than a long narrative volume, and date it to around 1895. It is generally attributed on the cover to “Palmer Cox” and was issued during the height of Brownie merchandising, when the characters appeared in calendars and other ephemera as well as in his main book series.Source: Perplexity.ai-- G. Ly
