Frances Elizabeth Barrow

Frances Elizabeth Barrow (pen name, Aunt Fanny; nickname, "Frankie Blue";^[1] February 22, 1822 – May 7, 1894)^[2] was an American author of children's stories.^[3]

Early life[]

Frances Elizabeth Mease was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 22, 1822.^[4][3][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]

Career[]

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]

Personal life[]

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.^[3] 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

Attribution[]

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Howard Lockwood (1894). The American Stationer. 35 (Public domain ed.). Howard Lockwood.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Publishers' Weekly (1895). The Annual Literary Index (Public domain ed.). Office of the Publishers' Weekly.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now 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.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John (1888). Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography. 1 (Public domain ed.). Gale Research Co.

Bibliography[]

• Broderick, Mosette (26 October 2010). Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-59427-3.
• Cameron, Schyrlet; Doss, Janie; Myers, Suzanne (2 September 2008). Using Primary Sources in the Social Studies and Language Arts Classroom, Grades 6 - 8. Mark Twain Media. ISBN 978-1-58037-740-9.
• Carty, T.J. (3 December 2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95578-6.
• DeFelice, Cynthia C. (2001). Nowhere to Call Home. Demco Media. ISBN 978-0-606-21359-2.
• Linworth Publishing (1999). Library Media Connection: LMC. 59. Linworth Publishing.
• Marquis-Who's Who (1967). Who was who in America. Marquis-Who's Who.
• Steiner, Stanley F. (2001). Promoting a Global Community Through Multicultural Children's Literature. Libraries Unlimited. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-56308-705-9.

References[]

External links[]

• Works by Frances Elizabeth Barrow at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Frances Elizabeth Barrow at Internet Archive