Annie Cooper Boyd

Annie Cooper Boyd (1864–1941) was an American feminist, watercolorist and diarist.

Biography Boyd was born Annie Burnham Cooper in Sag Harbor, New York, the daughter of William Cooper, a prosperous boatbuilder; she was the youngest of eleven children. At the age of 16 she began keeping a diary, which she continued writing well into adulthood. Her father died in 1894, and a year later she married William John Boyd, with whom she moved to Brooklyn; they kept the cottage which her father had willed her in Sag Harbor and used it as a summer home. Their son William was born in 1898, and their daughter Nancy followed three years later. Eventually she and her husband returned full-time to live in the cottage in Sag Harbor, where she opened and operated the Herald House Tea Room. the building itself is decorated throughout with paintings as well. Excerpts from her diary, and paintings, have been published as Anchor to Windward: the Diaries and Paintings of Annie Cooper Boyd: written (1880–1935).