Frances Elizabeth Barrow | |
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Born | Frances Elizabeth Mease February 22, 1822 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
Died | May 7, 1894 New York City, U.S. | (aged 72)
Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York), U.S. |
Pen name | Aunt Fanny |
Nickname | "Frankie Blue" |
Occupation | author |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Genre | children's literature |
Spouse |
James Barrow, Jr.
(
m. 1841; died 1868) |
Frances Elizabeth Barrow ( née, Mease; pen name, Aunt Fanny; February 22, 1822 – May 7, 1894) [1] was a 19th-century American children's writer. [2]
Frances ( nickname, "Frankie Blue" [3]) Elizabeth Mease was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 22, 1822. [4] [2] [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]
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]
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. [2] The interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery. [6] Two daughters, Mrs. S. L. Holly and Mrs. Theodore Connoly, survived her. [6]