{{Short description|American children's writer}} {{distinguish|Frances Dana Barker Gage}} {{Infobox writer | name = Frances Elizabeth Barrow | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = Aunt Fanny | nickname = "Frankie Blue" | birth_name = Frances Elizabeth Mease | birth_date = February 22, 1822 | birth_place = Charleston, South Carolina | death_date = {{death date and age|1894|5|7|1822|2|22}} | death_place = New York City | resting_place = Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) | occupation = Author | language = English | residence = | nationality = American | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Children's literature | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = {{marriage|James Barrow, Jr.|1841|1868|end=died}} | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> }} '''Frances Elizabeth Barrow''' ({{née}} '''Mease'''; pen name, '''Aunt Fanny'''; February 22, 1822{{spaced ndash}}May 7, 1894){{sfn|Carty|2015|p=14}} was a 19th-century American children's writer and novelist. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, she began writing books for children under the ''nom de plume'' "Aunt Fanny" in 1855. She authored a total of twenty-five books, some of which were translated in Europe, including ''Six Night Caps'', ''Aunt Fanny's Story Book'', and ''Take Heed.'' Barrow also wrote the novels, ''The Wife's Stratagem'' and ''The Letter G''.
==Biography== Frances ("Frankie Blue"{{sfn|Steiner|2001|p=57}}) Elizabeth Mease was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 22, 1822.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=57}}{{sfn|Publishers' Weekly|1895|p=75}}{{sfn|Wilson|Fiske|1888|p=179}} Her parents were Charles Benton Mease,{{sfn|Howard Lockwood|1894|p=911}} of Charleston, and Sarah Matilda Graham of Boston.{{sfn|Marquis-Who's Who|1967|p=111}} Barrow's sister, Alexina Black Mease married Richard Grant White in 1850.{{sfn|Broderick|2010|p=62}}
Barrow's ''nom de plume'' of "Aunt Fanny",{{sfn|Wilson|Fiske|1888|p=179}} first appeared in 1855, when she began to write books for children. There were twenty-five in all, and some were translated in Europe. They included ''Six Night Caps'', ''Aunt Fanny's Story Book'', ''Four Little Hearts'', and ''Take Heed''. Barrow also wrote ''The Wife's Stratagem'', a novel, and ''The Letter G''.{{sfn|Howard Lockwood|1894|p=911}}
On December 7, 1841, she married James Barrow Jr.{{sfn|Marquis-Who's Who|1967|p=111}} He was a founder of the English Club of Pau and died there at the age of 53 at Maison Labeyrie, rue Bernadotte, Pau, France,<ref>Death record (acte de décès), Ville de Pau, 1868</ref> November 18, 1868 and was interred in Pau. She died at 30 East Thirty-fifth street, in New York City{{sfn|Howard Lockwood|1894|p=911}} on May 7, 1894.{{sfn|Publishers' Weekly|1895|p=75}} The interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery.{{sfn|Howard Lockwood|1894|p=911}} Two daughters, Mrs. S. L. Holly and Mrs. Theodore Connoly, survived her.{{sfn|Howard Lockwood|1894|p=911}}
==Selected works== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} ===Children's literature=== * ''Aunt Fanny's Story Book'' * ''Big nightcap Letters'' * ''The birdnests' stories'' * ''Daisy & Dot'' * ''Fairy nightcaps'', 1861 * ''Four Little Hearts'' * ''Little nightcaps'', 1861 * ''Stories told in the wood'', 1864 * ''Take Heed''
===Novels=== * ''The Letter G'' * ''The Wife's Stratagem'' {{div col end}}
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
===Attribution=== * {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=Howard Lockwood|title=The American Stationer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3UNYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA911|edition=Public domain|volume=35|year=1894|publisher=Howard Lockwood}} }} * {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=Publishers' Weekly|title=The Annual Literary Index|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLhCAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA75|edition=Public domain|year=1895|publisher=Office of the Publishers' Weekly}} }} * {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ/page/n416 412]|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton}} }} * {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=James Grant|last2=Fiske|first2=John|title=Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FQYAAAAIAAJ|edition=Public domain|volume=1|year=1888|publisher=Gale Research Co.}} }}
===Bibliography=== * {{cite book|last=Broderick|first=Mosette|title=Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RZ4e-Mfco8MC&pg=PA62|date=26 October 2010|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-59427-3}} * {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Cameron|first1=Schyrlet|last2=Doss|first2=Janie|last3=Myers|first3=Suzanne|title=Using Primary Sources in the Social Studies and Language Arts Classroom, Grades 6 - 8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XS9qAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|date=2 September 2008|publisher=Mark Twain Media|isbn=978-1-58037-740-9}} * {{cite book|last=Carty|first=T.J.|title=A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQoeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14|date=3 December 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-95578-6}} * {{cite book |ref=none |author=Linworth Publishing|title=Library Media Connection: LMC.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vjUPAQAAMAAJ|volume=59|year=1999|publisher=Linworth Publishing}} * {{cite book|author=Marquis-Who's Who|title=Who was who in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qoYAAAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Marquis-Who's Who}} * {{cite book|last=Steiner|first=Stanley F.|title=Promoting a Global Community Through Multicultural Children's Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/promotingglobalc00stan|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/promotingglobalc00stan/page/57 57]|year=2001|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=978-1-56308-705-9}}
==External links== * {{Gutenberg author|id=33364}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Frances Elizabeth Barrow}} {{Portal|Biography|Children's literature}}
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