Anna Chapin Ray

Anna Chapin Ray
Born	(1865-01-03)January 3, 1865 Westfield, Massachusetts
Died	December 13, 1945(1945-12-13) (aged 80)
Nationality	American
Education	B.A., M.A.
Alma mater	Smith College
Occupation	Writer

Anna Chapin Ray (January 3, 1865 – December 13, 1945) was an American writer.

Biography

Born in Westfield, Massachusetts,[1] she was the daughter of Edward Addison Ray and Helen M. (Chapin).[2] In 1881 she was one of the first three women to take the Yale University entrance exam.[2] She studied at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts[3] where she received a B.A. in 1885 and an M.A. in modern European history in 1888.[2][4]

Beginning in 1889,[2] Anna became a prolific author; her works included many children's books, but she also published adult novels. She wrote during the summer in New Haven, Connecticut, then spent the winter in Quebec.[5] Most of her works were written using the pseudonym Sidney Howard.[3] From 1916 until 1920 she served at the Military Hospitals Commission in Ottawa. She was supervisor of the stenographic bureau in the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment.[6] Her older brother Nathaniel (1858–1917) was a mining engineer and a California state legislator. The two frequently corresponded.[7]

In October 1945 she had a hip fracture and was admitted to the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, Connecticut. After being moved to a convalescent hospital, she died December 13, 1945.[8]

Bibliography

• In Blue Creek cañon[9] (1892)
• Margaret Davis, tutor[9] (1893)
• Dick: a story for boys and girls[9] (1896)
• Half a dozen girls (1897)
• Half a dozen boys: an every-day story (1889)
• How Polly and Ned found Santa Claus (1898)
• Teddy: her book: a story of sweet sixteen[9] (1898)
• Each life unfulfilled[9] (1899)
• Phebe, her profession: a sequel to Teddy: her book[9] (1900)
• The dominant strain[9] (1903)
• Sheba[9] (1903)
• Ursula's freshman[9] (1903)
• Bumper and baby John (1904)
• By the good Sainte Anne: a story of modern Quebec[10] (1904)
• On the firing line" a romance of South Africa[9][10] (1905) with Hamilton Brock Fuller
• Hearts and creeds[9][10] (1906)
• Janet : her winter in Quebec[9] (1906)
• Ackroyd of the faculty (1907)
• Teddy, her daughter; a sequel to Teddy, her book[9] (1907)[note 1]
• Quickened[9] (1908)
• The bridge builders[10] (1909)
• Janet at odds[9] (1909)
• Nathalie's chum (1909)
• Nathalie's sister: the last of the McAlister records (1909)
• Sidney at college (1909)
• Over the quicksands[9][10] (1910)
• A woman with a purpose[10] (1911)
• The Brentons (1912)
• Sidney: her summer on the St. Lawrence (1912)
• On board the Beatic[9][10] (1913)
• The responsibilities of Buddie (1913)
• Letters of a Canadian stretcher bearer (1918) editor

Notes

1. Reissued by Henry Frowde, London, in 1911 with colour illustrations by N. Tenison.[11]

References

1. The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, vol. 36, new york: Excelsior Publishing House, January 1, 1912, p. 115.
2. Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, New York: L.R. Hamersly, 1909, p. 44.
3. Oldenziel, Ruth (1999), Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945, Amsterdam University Press, p. 138, ISBN 9053563814.
4. Kramer, John E. (1981), The American college novel: an annotated bibliography, Garland Publishing, p. 44, ISBN 0824093658.
5. "Summer Plans of Authors", Lewistin Journal, p. 12, June 22–25, 1910.
6. Tennyson, Brian Douglas (2013), The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs, Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, p. 439, ISBN 9780810886797.
7. "Nathaniel Chapin Ray Papers, 1878-1916", Manuscript Collections, New Haven Museum, archived from the original on December 18, 2010, retrieved 2012-02-24.
8. "Children's Author; Writer of 40 Volumes for the Young Dies in New Haven-- First Book Out in 1890", The New York Times, December 14, 1945, retrieved 2024-07-11.
9. "Browsing Authors With Titles", The Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania, retrieved 2013-02-24.
10. Smith, Geoffrey D. (1997), American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography, Cambridge University Press, p. 554, ISBN 0521434696.
11. "Search Results for the Keyword "N. Tenison"". Library Hub Discover. Retrieved 2020-08-26.

External links

• Media related to Anna Chapin Ray at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by Anna Chapin Ray at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Anna Chapin Ray at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Anna Chapin Ray at the Internet Archive