Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

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 National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

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 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)
• In Château Land (1911)
• A Rose of Old Quebec (1913)
• English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)
• In Old Pennsylvania Towns (1920)

References

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External links

• Works by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)