Frances Elizabeth Barrow (née, Mease; pen name, Aunt Fanny; February 22, 1822 – May 7, 1894)[1] was a 19th-century American children's writer.[2]
Frances Elizabeth Barrow | |
|---|---|
| Born | Frances Elizabeth Mease February 22, 1822 Charleston, South Carolina |
| Died | May 7, 1894 (aged 72) New York City |
| Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) |
| Pen name | Aunt Fanny |
| Nickname | "Frankie Blue" |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Spouse |
James Barrow, Jr.
(m. 1841; died 1868) |
Biography
editFrances (nickname, "Frankie Blue"[3]) Elizabeth Mease was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 22, 1822.[4][2][5] Her parents were Charles Benton Mease,[6] of Charleston, and Sarah Matilda Graham of Boston.[7] Barrow's sister, Alexina Black Mease married Richard Grant White in 1850.[8]
Barrow's nom de plume of "Aunt Fanny",[5] first appeared in 1855, when she began to write books for children. There were twenty-five in all, and some were translated in Europe. They included Six Night Caps, Aunt Fanny's Story Book, Four Little Hearts, and Take Heed. Barrow also wrote The Wife's Stratagem, a novel, and The Letter G.[6]
On December 7, 1841, she married James Barrow, Jr.[7] He died at the age of 53 at Maison Labeyrie, rue Bernadotte, Pau, France,[9] November 18, 1868 and was interred in Pau. She died at 30 East Thirty-fifth street, in New York City,[6] May 7, 1894.[2] The interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery.[6] Two daughters, Mrs. S. L. Holly and Mrs. Theodore Connoly, survived her.[6]
Selected works
edit- Stories told in the wood, 1864
- Little nightcaps., 1861
- Fairy nightcaps, 1861
- Big nightcap Letters
- The birdnests' stories
References
edit- ^ Carty 2015, p. 14.
- ^ a b c Publishers' Weekly 1895, p. 75.
- ^ Steiner 2001, p. 57.
- ^ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 57.
- ^ a b Wilson & Fiske 1888, p. 179.
- ^ a b c d e Howard Lockwood 1894, p. 911.
- ^ a b Marquis-Who's Who 1967, p. 111.
- ^ Broderick 2010, p. 62.
- ^ Death record (acte de décès), Ville de Pau, 1868
Attribution
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Howard Lockwood (1894). The American Stationer. Vol. 35 (Public domain ed.). Howard Lockwood.- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Publishers' Weekly (1895). The Annual Literary Index (Public domain ed.). Office of the Publishers' Weekly.
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 412.
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John (1888). Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography. Vol. 1 (Public domain ed.). Gale Research Co.
Bibliography
edit- Broderick, Mosette (26 October 2010). Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-59427-3.
- Cameron, Schyrlet; Doss, Janie; Myers, Suzanne (2 September 2008). Using Primary Sources in the Social Studies and Language Arts Classroom, Grades 6 - 8. Mark Twain Media. ISBN 978-1-58037-740-9.
- Carty, T.J. (3 December 2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95578-6.
- DeFelice, Cynthia C. (2001). Nowhere to Call Home. Demco Media. ISBN 978-0-606-21359-2.
- Linworth Publishing (1999). Library Media Connection: LMC. Vol. 59. Linworth Publishing.
- Marquis-Who's Who (1967). Who was who in America. Marquis-Who's Who.
- Steiner, Stanley F. (2001). Promoting a Global Community Through Multicultural Children's Literature. Libraries Unlimited. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-56308-705-9.
