Frances Elizabeth Barrow

Frances Elizabeth Barrow (pen name, Aunt Fanny; nickname, "Frankie Blue";[1] February 22, 1822 – May 7, 1894)[2] was an American author of children's stories.[3]

Not to be confused with Frances Dana Barker Gage.

Frances Elizabeth Barrow
Born	Frances Elizabeth Mease February 22, 1822 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Died	May 7, 1894(1894-05-07) (aged 72) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York), U.S.
Pen name	Aunt Fanny
Occupation	author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	children's literature
Spouse	James Barrow, Jr. ( m. 1841)

Early life

Frances Elizabeth Mease was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 22, 1822.[4][3][5] Her parents were Charles Benton Mease,[6] of Charleston, and Sarah Matilda Graham of Boston.[7] Barrow's sister, Alexina Black Mease married Richard Grant White in 1850.[8]

Career

Barrow's nom de plume of "Aunt Fanny",[5] first appeared in 1855, when she began to write books for children. There were twenty-five in all, and some were translated in Europe. They included Six Night Caps, Aunt Fanny's Story Book, Four Little Hearts, and Take Heed. Barrow also wrote The Wife's Stratagem, a novel, and The Letter G.[6]

Personal life

On December 7, 1841, she married James Barrow, Jr.[7] He died at the age of 53 at Maison Labeyrie, rue Bernadotte, Pau, France,[9] November 18, 1868 and was interred in Pau. She died at 30 East Thirty-fifth street, in New York City,[6] May 7, 1894.[3] The interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery.[6] Two daughters, Mrs. S. L. Holly and Mrs. Theodore Connoly, survived her.[6]

Selected works

• Stories told in the wood, 1864
• Little nightcaps., 1861
• Fairy nightcaps, 1861
• Big nightcap Letters
• The birdnests' stories

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Howard Lockwood (1894). The American Stationer. 35 (Public domain ed.). Howard Lockwood.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Publishers' Weekly (1895). The Annual Literary Index (Public domain ed.). Office of the Publishers' Weekly.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 412.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John (1888). Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography. 1 (Public domain ed.). Gale Research Co.

Bibliography

• Broderick, Mosette (26 October 2010). Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-59427-3.
• Cameron, Schyrlet; Doss, Janie; Myers, Suzanne (2 September 2008). Using Primary Sources in the Social Studies and Language Arts Classroom, Grades 6 - 8. Mark Twain Media. ISBN 978-1-58037-740-9.
• Carty, T.J. (3 December 2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95578-6.
• DeFelice, Cynthia C. (2001). Nowhere to Call Home. Demco Media. ISBN 978-0-606-21359-2.
• Linworth Publishing (1999). Library Media Connection: LMC. 59. Linworth Publishing.
• Marquis-Who's Who (1967). Who was who in America. Marquis-Who's Who.
• Steiner, Stanley F. (2001). Promoting a Global Community Through Multicultural Children's Literature. Libraries Unlimited. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-56308-705-9.

References

1. Steiner 2001, p. 57.
2. Carty 2015, p. 14.
3. Publishers' Weekly 1895, p. 75.
4. Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 57.
5. Wilson & Fiske 1888, p. 179.
6. Howard Lockwood 1894, p. 911.
7. Marquis-Who's Who 1967, p. 111.
8. Broderick 2010, p. 62.
9. Death record (acte de décès), Ville de Pau 1868. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDeath_record_(acte_de_décès),_Ville_de_Pau1868 (help)

External links

• Works by Frances Elizabeth Barrow at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Frances Elizabeth Barrow at Internet Archive