Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
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Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928) was an American
writer and historian.
Born at Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania
, daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs she was educated at a private school in Philadelphia
. She devoted herself chiefly to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote a number of entertaining books and magazine articles in this field, and was chosen historian of the The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writer and historian.
Born at Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs she was educated at a private school in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
. She devoted herself chiefly to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote a number of entertaining books and magazine articles in this field, and was chosen historian of the The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor "who came to reside in an American Colony before 1750, and whose services were rendered during the Colonial Period." The national headquarters of the society is at...
.
Works
Her publications include:- St. Bartholomew's Eve (1866)
- The Wharton Family (1880)
- Through Colonial Doorways (1893)
- Colonial Days and Dames (1894)
- A Last Century Maid (1895)
- Life of Martha WashingtonMartha WashingtonMartha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States...
(1897) - Heirlooms in Miniatures (1897)
- Salons Colonial and Republican (1900)
- Social Life in the Early Republic (1902)
- An English Honeymoon (1908)
- Italian Days and Ways (1908)
- In Château Land (1911)
- A Rose of Old QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
(1913) - English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)
- In Old Pennsylvania Towns (1920)