Frances Elizabeth Barrow

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Frances Elizabeth Barrow
Born
Frances 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 and novelist. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, she began writing books for children under the nom de plume "Aunt Fanny" in 1855. She authored a total of twenty-five books, some of which were translated in Europe, including Six Night Caps, Aunt Fanny's Story Book, and Take Heed. Barrow also wrote the novels, The Wife's Stratagem and The Letter G.

Biography

Frances ("Frankie Blue"[2]) Elizabeth Mease was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 22, 1822.[3][4][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] on May 7, 1894.[4] The interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery.[6] Two daughters, Mrs. S. L. Holly and Mrs. Theodore Connoly, survived her.[6]

Selected works

Children's literature

  • Aunt Fanny's Story Book
  • Big nightcap Letters
  • The birdnests' stories
  • Daisy & Dot
  • Fairy nightcaps, 1861
  • Four Little Hearts
  • Little nightcaps, 1861
  • Stories told in the wood, 1864
  • Take Heed

Novels

  • The Letter G
  • The Wife's Stratagem

References

  1. ↑ Carty 2015, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Steiner 2001, p. 57.
  3. ↑ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 57.
  4. 1 2 Publishers' Weekly 1895, p. 75.
  5. 1 2 Wilson & Fiske 1888, p. 179.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Howard Lockwood 1894, p. 911.
  7. 1 2 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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