Frances Elizabeth Barrow

Not to be confused with Frances Dana Barker Gage.
Frances Elizabeth Barrow
BornFrances Elizabeth Mease
February 22, 1822
Charleston, South Carolina
DiedMay 7, 1894(1894-05-07) (aged 72)
New York City
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Pen nameAunt Fanny
Nickname"Frankie Blue"
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
GenreChildren's literature
Spouse
James Barrow, Jr.
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(m. 1841; died 1868)​

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]

Biography

Frances (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

  • Stories told in the wood, 1864
  • Little nightcaps., 1861
  • Fairy nightcaps, 1861
  • Big nightcap Letters
  • The birdnests' stories
  • Daisy & Dot

References

  1. ^ Carty 2015, p. 14.
  2. ^ a b c Publishers' Weekly 1895, p. 75.
  3. ^ Steiner 2001, p. 57.
  4. ^ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 57.
  5. ^ a b Wilson & Fiske 1888, p. 179.
  6. ^ a b c d e Howard Lockwood 1894, p. 911.
  7. ^ a b Marquis-Who's Who 1967, p. 111.
  8. ^ Broderick 2010, p. 62.
  9. ^ Death record (acte de décès), Ville de Pau, 1868

Attribution

  • Public Domain 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.
  • Public Domain 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.
  • Public Domain 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.
  • Public Domain 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.

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