Up for auction a RARE! “British Novelist” Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Hand Signed 3.5X4.5 Card Dated 1897ES-8502EAmeliaEdith Huddleston Barr (March29, 1831 – March 10, 1919) was a British novelist and teacher.[1] Many of the plots of her stories are laid inScotland and England. The scenes are from her girlhood recollection ofsurroundings. Her works include, Jan Vedder's Wife, ABorder Shepherdess, Feet of Clay, Friend Olivia, TheBow of Orange Ribbon, Remember the Alamo, She Loved aSailor, A Daughter of Fife, The Squire of Sanddal Side, Pauland Christina, Master of His Fate, The Household ofMcNeil, The Last of the Macallisters, Between Two Loves, ASister to Esau, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves, A Singerfrom the Sea, The Beads of Tasmer, The HallamSuccession, The Lone House, Christopher and OtherStories, The Lost Silver of Briffault. She was born on March29, 1831 (1832 is also reported), in Ulverston, Lancashire, England as Amelia Edith Huddleston. Her father wasReverend William Huddleston, a Wesleyan minister. She was brought up inan atmosphere of culture and refinement, and early turned to books forrecreation and instruction. When only nine years of age she became her father'scompanion and reader. Thus it was she read books far beyond her comprehension,but they tended to develop her mental qualities. A brief return to her father's financialstability allowed Barr to return to the Normal School in Glasgow where she learned the Stowe teaching method. Its principles are based onmorality and lifelong learning, rather than learning by rote. On 11 July 1850,she and a prosperous local wool merchant, Robert Barr, married. The coupleemigrated to the U.S. in September 1853, landing in New York City. In Chicago, Illinois, Barr tutored at home, andestablished a school for girls, though she was not involved for lonPowered by ExportYourStore
