Frances Elizabeth Barrow (, Mease;
pen name
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, Aunt Fanny; February 22, 1822May 7, 1894) was a 19th-century American children's writer.
Biography
Frances (
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, "Frankie Blue") Elizabeth Mease was born in
Charleston, South Carolina
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, February 22, 1822. Her parents were Charles Benton Mease, of Charleston, and Sarah Matilda Graham of
Boston
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. Barrow's sister, Alexina Black Mease married
Richard Grant White
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in 1850.
Barrow's ''nom de plume'' of "Aunt Fanny", 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''.
On December 7, 1841, she married James Barrow, Jr. He died at the age of 53 at Maison Labeyrie, rue Bernadotte,
Pau, France,
[Death record (acte de décès), Ville de Pau, 1868] November 18, 1868 and was interred in Pau. She died at 30 East Thirty-fifth street, in
New York City
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, May 7, 1894. The interment was in
Woodlawn Cemetery. Two daughters, Mrs. S. L. Holly and Mrs. Theodore Connoly, survived her.
Selected works
* ''Stories told in the wood'', 1864
* ''Little nightcaps.'', 1861
* ''Fairy nightcaps'', 1861
* ''Big nightcap Letters''
* ''The birdnests' stories''
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1822 births
1894 deaths
19th-century American women writers
19th-century American writers
19th-century pseudonymous writers
American children's writers
Writers from Charleston, South Carolina
Pseudonymous women writers
Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century