Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

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Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
Portrait of Anne Hollingsworth Wharton.jpg
Born(1845-12-15)December 15, 1845
Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
DiedJuly 29, 1928(1928-07-29) (aged 82)
Occupationwriter and historian
NationalityAmerican

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928) was an American writer and historian.[1]

Career[]

She was born at Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1845, the daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs. She was educated at a private school in Philadelphia and received a Litt. D. from the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

She devoted herself chiefly to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote a number of books and magazine articles in this field, and was chosen historian of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. She also helped to found the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America. In 1893, she was a judge at the American Colonial Exhibit at the World's Colombian Exposition at Chicago.[2]

She was also involved in genealogy and published The Genealogy of the Wharton Family in 1880.[2]

Works[]

  • St. Bartholomew's Eve (1866)
  • The Wharton Family (1880)
  • Through Colonial Doorways (1893)
  • Colonial Days and Dames (1894)
  • A Last Century Maid (1895)
  • Life of Martha Washington (1897)
  • Heirlooms in Miniatures (1897)
  • Salons Colonial and Republican (1900)
  • Social Life in the Early Republic (1902)
  • An English Honeymoon (1908)
  • Italian Days and Ways (1908)[3]
  • In Château Land (1911)
  • A Rose of Old Quebec (1913)
  • English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)
  • In Old Pennsylvania Towns (1920)

References[]

  1. ^ Owen, Deborah L. (2000). "Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth (1845-1928), writer and historian". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601744. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Lingelbach, Anna Lane (December 5, 2016). "Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1845–1928)". Notable Women of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 229–230. doi:10.9783/9781512814477-148. ISBN 978-1-5128-1447-7.
  3. ^ Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum: Seitenansicht at www-gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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