Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (March 29, 1831 – March 10, 1919) was an English novelist and teacher.

Barr asked advice of Henry Ward Beecher, then editor of the Christian Union, in regard to contributions to magazines. He encouraged her to write for his paper. Through the Bouchers or Dr. Lyman Abbott, she met the Harpers and wrote for them many years. After an accident confined her to a chair, unable to employ herself otherwise, she wrote her first novel, Jan Vedder's Wife. Thereafter, she wrote a great deal. In 1869, she moved to New York City, where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.

Barr had a sunstroke in July 1918 and never fully recovered. She died on March 10, 1919, in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York, where she had moved in 1914. She was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, New York, near her friend, Louis Klopsch. Her daughter Mary Barr Munroe became a noted clubwoman and conservationist in Florida.

Selected works Novels

Romance and Reality (1872) Jan Vedder's Wife (1885) A Daughter of Fife (1886) A Bow of Orange Ribbon (1886) A Border Shepherdess (1887) Paul and Christina (1887) Remember the Alamo (1888) Between Two Loves (1889) She Loved a Sailor (1890) Friend Olivia (1891) A Rose of a Hundred Leaves (1891) The Bow of Orange Ribbon (1893) A Singer from the Sea (1893) Birds of a Feather (1893) The Lone House (1894) Bernicia (1895) A Knight of the Nets (1896) Trinity Bells (1899) The Maid of Maiden Lane (1900) Souls of Passage (1901) The Lion's Whelp (1901) Thyra Varrick (1903) The Black Shilling (1903) Cecilia's Lovers (1906) The Man Between (1906) The Belle of Bowling Green (1908) The Strawberry Handkerchief (1908) The Hands of Compulsion (1909) The House of Cherry Street (1909) A Reconstructed Marriage (1910) Sheila Vedder (1911) The Measure of a Man (1915)

Autobiography All the Days of my Life (1913)