Anna Robeson Brown Burr (May 26, 1873 – September 10, 1941) was an American writer of novels, poetry, stories, essays, and biographies. Her The Autobiography: A Critical and Comparative Study (1909), was the first book on the subject.
Early life Brown was born in 1873, to Josephine Baker and Henry Armitt Brown. She was a descendant of Charles Brockden Brown, who was also a writer.
Career Her novels include: Alain of Halfdene (1895); The Black Lamb (1896); A Cosmopolitan Comedy (1899); The House of Pan: A Romance (1899); The Immortal Garland (1900); The Millionaire's Son (1903); Truth and a Woman (1903); The Wine Press (1905); The Jessop Bequest (1907); The House on Charles Street (1921); The Wrong Move: A Romance (1923); The Great House in the Park (1924); Palludia (1928); Wind in the East (1933);"Mystery Yarn from Rhodes" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (May 14, 1933): 38. via Newspapers.com and The Golden Quicksand: A Novel of Santa Fé (1936).
She also wrote non-fiction books, among them, The Autobiography: A Critical and Comparative Study (1909), "the first book on the subject";Robert F. Sayre, American Lives, an Anthology of Autobiographical Writing (University of Wisconsin Press 1994): 443-44. Religious Confessions and Confessants (1914);"Baring Secrets of the Soul in Religious Confessions" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (July 11, 1914): 6. via Newspapers.com The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman, 1850-1918 (1927); and Weir Mitchell: His Life and Letters (1929)."Online Books by Anna Robeson Brown Burr" Online Books page.
Brown also wrote for periodicals including Ladies' Home Journal, Godey's Magazine, Lippincott's Magazine, and St. Nicholas Magazine.Untitled item, Omaha Daily Bee (July 12, 1899): 7. via Newspapers.com"August Ladies' Home Journal" The Watchman and Southron (July 26, 1899): 3. via Newspapers.com"Lippincott's Magazine for April 1899" Hartford Herald (April 12, 1899): 4. via Newspapers.com
Personal life Brown married lawyer Charles Henry Burr Jr. in 1899."Wedded Amid Flowers" The Times (May 28, 1899): 13. via Newspapers.com They had two daughters, the elder being archaeologist Dorothy Burr Thompson. During World War I, Anna moved herself and her daughters to London to be closer to Charles who was doing work there."Mrs. C. H. Burr Dies at 68 Years" Delaware County Daily Times (September 11, 1941): 1. via Newspapers.com Charles Henry Burr Jr. died in 1925.Jaimee P. Uhlenbrock, "Dorothy Burr Thompson" in Martha Sharp Joukousky and Barbara S. Lesko, eds., Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology (Brown University). She died in 1941, aged 68 years, from pneumonia."Writer Dies" Gettysburg Times (September 11, 1941): 11. via Newspapers.com She is interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
Publications The House of Pan. A Romance., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1899 The Autobiography - A Critical and Comparative Study, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 Religious Confessions and Confessants With a Chapter on the History of Introspection, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914 The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman, 1850-1918, New York: Duffield & Company, 1927 The City We Visit - Old Philadelphia, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1926
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