Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth (1845–1928)
Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth (1845–1928)
American writer . Born in Pennsylvania in 1845; died in 1928.
A founder and first historian of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Anne Wharton wrote a number of entertaining and instructive books, her favorite subjects being those of Colonial and Revolutionary times. In 1893, she was appointed a judge at the Chicago World's Fair, and she was an honorary member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Her works include St. Bartholomew's Eve, The Wharton Family (1880), Colonial Days and Dames (1895), Life of Martha Washington , Social Life in the Early Republic, An English Honeymoon (1908), A Rose of Old Quebec (1913), and English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915).
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