Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
- Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (15 December 1845–29 July 1928) was an American writer and historian.
Born at Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania, a descendant of Joseph Wharton, [ [http://virtualology.com/apthomaswharton/ Thomas Wharton ] ] 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 National Society of Colonial Dames of America.
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 Washington (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) [ [http://www-gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cgi-bin/digbib.cgi?PPN253426634 Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum: Seitenansicht ] at www-gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de]
* "In Château Land" (1911)
* "A Rose of Old Quebec" (1913)
* "English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans" (1915)
* "In Old Pennsylvania Towns" (1920)
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