Mary Francis Ames
Mary Francis Ames (1853-1929), born Mary Frances Leslie Miller, authored and illustrated children's books in Great Britain and Canada as Ernest Ames or Mrs. Ernest Ames.
Ames' books include An ABC, for Baby Patriots (1899), which was used for teaching children the alphabet,[1] The Bedtime Book (1901), Wonderful England!: Or, The Happy Land (1902), a patriotic paean,[2] Tim and the Dusty Man (1903), The Great Crusade: an alphabet for everybody (1903), Little Red Fox (1908), Watty: a white puppy (1913).
Ames also illustrated Really and Truly! Or, the Century for Babes (1899), The Tremendous Twins or How the Boers Were Beaten (1900), The Maid's Progress (1901), and Sessional: Big Ben ballads (1906), to accompany text written by her husband Ernest Fitzroy Ames, a railroad engineer.[3]
References
- ^ Silver, Lara. "Canada Fit for War: Image and Development of the Canadian Soldier, 1870–1914" (PDF). British Association for Canadian Studies. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ Wonderful England at the Open Library
- ^ Boehmer, Elleke (1998), Empire Writing: an Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918, Oxford: Oxford University Press
External links
- An ABC, for Baby Patriots (1899) openly online for free within the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
- Information on The Tremendous Twins or How the Boers Were Beaten
