Frances Elizabeth Barrow ( Mease;
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, Aunt Fanny; February 22, 1822May 7, 1894) was a 19th-century American children's writer.
Biography
Frances ("Frankie Blue") Elizabeth Mease was born in
Charleston, South Carolina, February 22, 1822. Her parents were Charles Benton Mease, of Charleston, and Sarah Matilda Graham of
Boston
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. Barrow's sister, Alexina Black Mease married
Richard Grant White in 1850.
Barrow's ''nom de plume'' of "Aunt Fanny", 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''.
On December 7, 1841, she married James Barrow, Jr. He died at the age of 53 at Maison Labeyrie, rue Bernadotte,
Pau, France,
[Death record (acte de décès), Ville de Pau, 1868] November 18, 1868 and was interred in Pau. She died at 30 East Thirty-fifth street, in
New York City
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on May 7, 1894. The interment was in
Woodlawn Cemetery. Two daughters, Mrs. S. L. Holly and Mrs. Theodore Connoly, survived her.
Selected works
* ''Stories told in the wood'', 1864
* ''Little nightcaps.'', 1861
* ''Fairy nightcaps'', 1861
* ''Big nightcap Letters''
* ''The birdnests' stories''
* ''Daisy & Dot''
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1822 births
1894 deaths
19th-century American women writers
19th-century American writers
19th-century pseudonymous writers
American children's writers
Writers from Charleston, South Carolina
Pseudonymous women writers
Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century