Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton | |
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| Born | December 15, 1845 Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania |
| Died | July 29, 1928 (aged 82) |
| Occupation | writer and historian |
| Nationality | American |
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928) was an American writer and historian.[1][2][3][4]
Formative years[edit]
Wharton was born in Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1845. The daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs, she was also a direct descendant of Robert Wharton, the longest serving mayor of Philadelphia.[5]
Educated at a private school in Philadelphia, she received a Litt. D. from the University of Pennsylvania.[6]
Career[edit]
She devoted herself primarily 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,[7][8] 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.[9] In 1893, she was a judge at the American Colonial Exhibit at the World's Colombian Exposition at Chicago.[6]
She was also involved in genealogy and published The Genealogy of the Wharton Family in 1880.[6] In 1915, the J.E. Lippincott Company published her book, English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans."[10]
A lifetime member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, she also served as vice president of the Browning Society of Philadelphia and was a member of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society.[11]
Illness, death and interment[edit]
During the summer of 1928, Wharton fell ill. She died three weeks later, at the age of eighty-three, at her home at 2220 Locust Street in Philadelphia on Sunday, July 29, 1928.[12] Her funeral was held at Philadelphia's historic Christ Church.[13] She was interred at The Woodlands Cemetery in the Wharton family's plot.[14]
Works[edit]
- 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)[15]
- In Château Land (1911)
- A Rose of Old Quebec (1913)
- English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)
- In Old Pennsylvania Towns (1920)
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Reviews and Gossip of New Publications: Anne Hollingsworth Wharton's Interesting Biography of Martha Washington." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 31, 1897, p. 5 (subscription required).
- ^ "Colonial and Revolutionary Women," in "New Books." Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Evening Transcript, May 1, 1897, p. 20 (subscription required).
- ^ "Social Life in the Early Republic." Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Appeal, August 22, 1903, p. 2 (subscription required).
- ^ "Anne Wharton, 83, Author, Is Dead." Burlington, Vermont: The Burlington Free Press, August 1, 1928, p. 3 (subscription required).
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Colonial and Revolutionary Women," in "New Books," Boston Evening Transcript, May 1, 1897.
- ^ "Social Life in the Early Republic," The Appeal, August 22, 1903.
- ^ "Anne Wharton, 83, Author, Is Dead," The Burlington Free Press, August 1, 1928.
- ^ "Tracing Some Ancestral Homes In England of Famous Americans, By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton." Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 4, 1915, p. 19 (subscription required).
- ^ "Anne Wharton, 83, Author, Is Dead," The Burlington Free Press, August 1, 1928.
- ^ "Anne Wharton, 83, Author, Is Dead," The Burlington Free Press, August 1, 1928.
- ^ "Sister of Bromley Wharton Is Dead at the Age of 83; Noted Writer and Historian." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Evening News, July 30. 1928, front page (subscription required).
- ^ "Anne Hollingsworth Wharton." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 1, 1928, p. 27 (subscription required).
- ^ 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.
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External links[edit]
Media related to Anne Hollingsworth Wharton at Wikimedia Commons- Works by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Anne Hollingsworth Wharton at Internet Archive
- Works by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
| International | |
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| National | |
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- 19th-century American biographers
- People from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
- 1845 births
- 1928 deaths
- Historians of the Thirteen Colonies
- American women historians
- American women biographers
- 19th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American biographers
- 20th-century American historians
- 20th-century American women writers
- Historians from Pennsylvania
- Burials at The Woodlands Cemetery
- Members of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America