Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Amelia Edith Barr

Amelia Barr in 1889, and her signature.

Amelia Edith Barr (Huddleston) (born March 29, 1831) in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, died March 10, 1919) was a British American novelist.

Biography

In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues. Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long.She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine.[Caldwell,William A.,et al.,"The History of a Village, Ridgewood,N.J.," State Tercentenary Committee, c. 1964, p. 32] In 1869, she moved to New York City where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.

By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.

Bibliography

Novels

• Romance and Reality (1872)
• Jan Vedder's Wife (1885)
• A Daughter of Fife (1886)
• A Bow of Orange Ribbon (1886)
• Remember the Alamo (1888)
• Friend Olivia (1891)
• A Rose of a Hundred Leaves (1891)
• Birds of a Feather (1893)
• The Lone House (1894)
• Bernicia (1895)
• A Knight of the Nets (1896)
• Trinity Bells (1899)
• The Maid of Maiden Lane (1900)
• Souls of Passage (1901)
• The Lion's Whelp (1901)
• Thyra Varrick (1903)
• The Man Between (1906)
• The Black Shilling, The Belle of Bowling Green (1908)
• The Strawberry Handkerchief (1908)
• The Hands of Compulsion (1909)
• The House of Cherry Street (1909)
• A Reconstructed Marriage (1910)
• Sheila Vedder (1911)
• The Measure of a Man (1915)

Autobiography

• All the Days of my Life (1913).

References

Notes

Bibliography

• "AMELIA BARR TO SELL HOME", The New York Times (New York), 30 December 1911, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F17F6355517738DDDA90B94DA415B818DF1D3 

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

External links

• Works by Amelia Barr at Project Gutenberg
• Wiksource The New Student's Reference Work/1-0220