Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

Portrait of Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

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

Career overview

She was born at Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs. She was educated at a private school in Philadelphia. 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.

Works

Her publications include:

• 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)
• In Château Land (1911)
• A Rose of Old Quebec (1913)
• English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)
• In Old Pennsylvania Towns (1920)

References

• 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. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• 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)