C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919)
Barr, Amelia Edith. An Anglo-American novelist; born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, March 29, 1831; died in 1919. She was the daughter of the Rev. William Huddleston, and in 1850 married Robert Barr. She came to America in 1854, and lived for some years in Texas; but after her husband’s death removed to New York, where her first book, ‘Romance and Reality,’ was published in 1872. She was a prolific writer, and her novels are 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); ‘The House on Cherry Street’ (1909).