Anna Maynard Barbour
Anna Maynard Barbour (died May 10, 1941) was an American author of best-selling fiction. A 1903 article in The Atlantic Monthly stated that "A. Maynard Barbour has been generally hailed as the most successful of American writers of mystery."[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Anna Barbour was born in Mansfield, New York, in the 19th century to Fayette Barbour and Jane E. Cutler.[2] Her parents died when she was young. During the late 19th century, she lived in Helena, Montana, where she worked for the U. S. Government. She married an English gentleman in 1893, and her husband reportedly encouraged her writing career. In 1907 she became an Episcopal deaconess at the House of Mercy in Boston and subsequently worked in Boston and Tennessee.[3]
Works
[edit | edit source]- The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West[2] (1897)
- That Mainwaring Affair[2] (1900)
- The award of justice[2] (1901)
- At the Time Appointed[2] (1903)
- Breakers Ahead[2] (1906)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Sarah Orne Jewett, The Atlantic Monthly, 1903, p. 12
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- ^ With information from brief biography (The New York Times, 30 Nov. 1901, p. BR13) and obituary ("Deaconess Anna Barbour: Author of 'That Mainwaring Affair,' a Best Seller of 1900," The New York Times, 16 May 1941, p. 23).
External links
[edit | edit source]- Works by Anna Maynard Barbour at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by Anna Maynard Barbour at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) File:Speaker Icon.svg
- Brief biography of A. Maynard Barbour (PDF format) in The New York Times, 30 Nov. 1901, p. BR13.
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