Anne Ellis

For the papyrologist and historian, see Ann Ellis Hanson.

Anne Ellis
Anne Ellis, Santa Barbara, 1935
Born	1875
Died	1938 (aged 62–63)
Occupation	author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	memoir

Anne Ellis (1875 - 1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs[1] chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The University of Colorado awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.[2]

She covered subjects including cooking for a telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.[3]

Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the Colorado Convention Center.[4] As of 1996^[update] the Saguache County Museum in Saguache, Colorado had a display on her.[5]

Selected publications

• The Life of An Ordinary Woman (1929)[6]
• Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman (1931)[7][8]
• Sunshine Preferred; The Philosophy of an Ordinary Woman (1934)[9][10]

References

1. McFarland, Ron (2014). The Rockies in First Person: A Critical Study of Recent American Memoirs from the Region. McFarland. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7864-5163-0 – via Google Books.
2. "Anne Ellis papers". Rare and Distinctive Collections. University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
3. Armitage, Shelley. "Ellis, Anne". American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present – via Encyclopedia.com.
4. Morreale, Don (June 2020). "A Colorado Panorama: Chief Ouray and Anne Ellis". Your Hub. Denver Post. Archived from the original on 4 December 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
5. Quillen, Martha (May 1, 1996). "The Life of an Ordinary Woman, by Anne Ellis". Colorado Central Magazine.
6. West, Elliott (1989). Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier. UNM Press. pp. 47–49. ISBN 9780826311559 – via Google Books.
7. Ellis, Anne (1997). Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803267363 – via Google Books. 1997 reprint of 1934 work with introduction
8. Jensen, Joan M. (1995). One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern American West. UNM Press. pp. 121–124. ISBN 9780826315397 – via Google Books.
9. "Catalogue record for "Sunshine preferred"". Worldcat. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
10. Ellis, Anne (1984). Sunshine preferred: the philosophy of an ordinary woman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803218109. 1984 reprint of 1934 work, with introduction

Further reading

• Colorado Quarterly (Summer 1955)
• New York Times (August 30, 1931 and August 19, 1934)
• New York Times Review of Books (September 29, 1929)