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Barr (AMELIA EDITH an Anglo)

AMELIA EDITH, an Anglo- American novelist, born in Ulverton, Lancashire, England, March 29, 1831.

She was the daughter of the Rev. William Huddleston, and in 1850 married Robert Barr. She came to the United States in 1854, and lived for some years in Texas; but after her husband's death (1867) removed to New York, where her first book, "Romance and Reality," was published in 1872. Her novels were very popular. They include "Jan Vedder's Wife" (New York, 1885); "A Daughter of Fife" (1885); "A Bow of Orange Ribbon" (1886); "A Border Shepherdess" (1887); "Friend Olivia" (1890); "A Sister to Esau" (1891); "Remember the Alamo" and "Prisoners of Conscience" BARRAGE (1897); "I, Thou, and the Other One" (1899); "All the Days of My Life" (1912); "The Measure of Man" (1915); "Three Score Years and Ten," an Autobiography (1915); "Christine" (1917); etc. She died in 1919.