Anne Abbott

Anne Wales Abbott or, Abbot (April 10, 1808 – June 1, 1908) was a game designer, magazine editor, literary reviewer, and author.

Life Abbott was born on 10 April 1808, the daughter of Reverend Abiel Abbott, a Beverly, Massachusetts, clergyman, and Eunice Abbott.

Abbott designed the hugely popular card game Dr. Busby, which was published by W. & S. B. Ives of Salem, Massachusetts, on March 7, 1843. It sold 15,000 copies in its first eighteen months.

Abbott authored her second game The Game of the Races which was sold in Salem, Mass. through J. P. Jewett on January 13, 1844. The Game of the Races was not published by W. & S. B. Ives as it was not advertised with other published W. & S. B. Ives games in her book, DOCTOR BUSBY AND HIS NEIGHBORS which was typeset by November 24, 1844 but not released for sale until December 28, 1844.

She released her third game Master Rodbury, on September 14, 1844. This time she again used W. & S. B. Ives as the publisher.

Abbott published her first book, WILLIE ROGERS sometime before November 24, 1844, The Mansion of Happiness was originally released in England in 1800, and authored by George W. M. Fox.

Abbott died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 1 June 1908.