Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

novelist.

In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they emigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their 6 children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters Mrs. Barr removed to New York in 1869 where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.

By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall on Hudson, New York, where they renovated a cottage on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.

She wrote some 30 novels, including:
* "Romance and Reality" (1872)
* "Jan Vedder's Wife" (1885)
* "A Daughter of Fife" (1886)
* "A Bow of Orange Ribbon" (1886)
* "Friend Olivia" (1891)
* "Birds of a Feather" (1893)
* "The Lone House" (1894)
* "Bernicia" (1895)
* "A Knight of the Nets" (1896)
* "Trinity Bells" (1899)
* "The Maid of Maiden Lane" (1900)
* "Souls of Passage" (1901)
* "The Lion's Whelp" (1901)
* "The Black Shilling, The Belle of Bowling Green" (1908)
* "The Strawberry Handkerchief" (1908)
* "The Hands of Compulsion" (1909)
* "The House of Cherry Street" (1909)
* "Sheila Vedder" (1911)

Her autobiography is titled "All the Days of my Life" (1913).

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