Mary Francis Ames, born Mary Frances Leslie Miller, (1853-1929) authored and illustrated children's books in Great Britain and Canada as Ernest Ames or Mrs. Ernest Ames.
Mary Francis Ames | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mary Frances Leslie Miller 1853 |
| Died | 1929 (aged 75–76) |
Ames's books include An ABC, for Baby Patriots (1899), which was used for teaching children the alphabet;[1] The Bedtime Book (1901),;Wonderful England!: Or, The Happy Land (1902), a patriotic paean;[2] Tim and the Dusty Man (1903); The Great Crusade: an alphabet for everybody (1903); Little Red Fox (1908); and Watty: a white puppy (1913).
Ames also illustrated Really and Truly! Or, the Century for Babes (1899), The Tremendous Twins or How the Boers Were Beaten (1900), The Maid's Progress (1901), and Sessional: Big Ben ballads (1906) to accompany text written by her husband Ernest Fitzroy Ames, a railroad engineer.[3]
References
edit- ^ Silver, Lara. "Canada Fit for War: Image and Development of the Canadian Soldier, 1870–1914" (PDF). British Association for Canadian Studies. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
- ^ "Wonderful England! by Ames, Ernest Mrs". Open Library. Archived from the original on 29 April 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ Boehmer, Elleke (1998), Empire Writing: an Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918, Oxford: Oxford University Press
External links
edit- An ABC, for Baby Patriots (1899) openly online for free within the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
- Information on The Tremendous Twins or How the Boers Were Beaten
