Article about Anne Brown (July 5th, 1930)
Title
Article about Anne Brown (July 5th, 1930)
Description
This is an article about Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown’s previous life before she married John Nicholas Brown II.
Born in Brooklyn in 1906, Anne was the daughter of Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore and poet, Sally Bruce Kinsolving. After completing high school at Baltimore’s Bryn Mawr School, Anne began writing columns for The Baltimore News. She wrote about celebrities such as the movie star Rudolph Valentino and French tennis ace, Suzanne Lenglen. She was adventurous and outspoken as well; she once rode upside down in a plane over the Washington Monument.
She met John Nicholas Brown II at a wedding he soon after proposed to her while she was recovering from appendix surgery. In 1930, after their marriage, they went on a year-long honeymoon all over Europe.
Born in Brooklyn in 1906, Anne was the daughter of Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore and poet, Sally Bruce Kinsolving. After completing high school at Baltimore’s Bryn Mawr School, Anne began writing columns for The Baltimore News. She wrote about celebrities such as the movie star Rudolph Valentino and French tennis ace, Suzanne Lenglen. She was adventurous and outspoken as well; she once rode upside down in a plane over the Washington Monument.
She met John Nicholas Brown II at a wedding he soon after proposed to her while she was recovering from appendix surgery. In 1930, after their marriage, they went on a year-long honeymoon all over Europe.
Source
Digital copy of item held at the John Hay Library, Brown University
Date
1930-07-05
Contributor
Minah Seo
Rights
Rights Status Not Evaluated
Citation
“Article about Anne Brown (July 5th, 1930),” Digital Tours of The Nightingale-Brown House , accessed November 2, 2025, https://cds.library.brown.edu/NBHouse/items/show/17.