Anne Ellis (1875–1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The
University of Colorado
The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, the University of Colorado Denver, and the U ...
awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.
She covered subjects including cooking for a
telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.
Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by
Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the
Colorado Convention Center
The Colorado Convention Center (CCC) is a multi-purpose convention center located in Downtown Denver, Colorado. At 2,200,000 square feet (total space) it is currently the 12th largest convention center in the United States. Opening in 1990, the ...
.
the Saguache County Museum in
Saguache, Colorado had a display on her.
Selected publications
*''The Life of An Ordinary Woman'' (1929)
*''Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman'' (1931)
*''Sunshine Preferred; The Philosophy of an Ordinary Woman'' (1934)
[ ''1984 reprint of 1934 work, with introduction'']
References
Further reading
*''Colorado Quarterly'' (Summer 1955)
* ''New York Times'' (August 30, 1931 and August 19, 1934)
* ''New York Times Review of Books'' (September 29, 1929)
1875 births
1938 deaths
19th-century American women writers
20th-century American women writers
Memoirists from Colorado
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