Anna M. Morrison Reed

Anna Medora Morrison Reed (1849/50-1921) was an American poet, lecturer, and suffragist, who for many years, was also the editor and publisher of a newspaper and a magazine. She was one of the most prominent literary women of the West in her day and was one of the best-known residents of Mendocino County, California, where she had resided for a great part of the time since 1872.

She came to California, in 1864, at the age of 15. They had five children: Mrs. Edward Keller, Mrs. C. Stoner, Mrs. W. E. Travis, Mrs. W. E. Shattuck, and John S. Reed. She was a life member of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association.

Her grandson, John E. Keller, was her biographer; he published Anna M Reed: 1849-1921 in 1978.

Much of her literary output was preserved in the state library in Sacramento, California. Her poems were probably the better-known of her works.

Selected works The Earlier Poems of Anna M. Morrison (1880) (text) The Later Poems of Anna Morrison Reed: In One Volume (1891) (text) The Latest and Later Poems of Anna Morrison Reed (1896) (text) Gethsemane: And Other Writings (1915) (text)