George Douglas Brown

Writer, born in Ochiltree, East Ayrshire, SW Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow and Oxford universities, then settled in London as a journalist. He is best known for The House with the Green Shutters (1901), written under his pseudonym.

For the earl, see George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton.

George Douglas Brown (1869 - 1902), novelist, who sometimes used the pen name George Douglas, wrote The House with the Green Shutters, which gives a strongly outlined picture of the harder and less genial aspects of Scottish life and character. In 1898 he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the clubs annual dinner

The novel was recently re-issued by Birlinn publishing in Edinburgh. An annual event in Brown's memory The Green Shutters Festival of Working Class Writing is held each year in his birthplace Ochiltree, in East Ayrshire (believed to be the model for "Barbie" the village in his most famous novel).

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910).