Anna Cabot Lowell

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Anna Cabot Lowell
Born29 September 1811 Edit this on Wikidata
Died7 January 1874 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 62)
OccupationWriter Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Charles Russell Lowell Edit this on Wikidata
ChildrenCharles Russell Lowell, Anna Lowell Woodbury, James Jackson Lowell Edit this on Wikidata
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Anna Cabot Lowell (September 29, 1811 – January 7, 1874)[1] was an American writer.[2]

Biography[edit]

Anna Cabot Jackson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1819. She married Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., son of Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. She was the mother of Civil War General Charles Russell Lowell and daughter Rose, who died at young age in the early 1850s. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 7 January 1874.[2]

Works[edit]

  • Theory of Teaching (Boston, 1841)[2]
  • Edward's First Lessons in Grammar (1843)
  • Gleanings from the Poets, for Home and School (1843)
  • Edward's First Lessons in Geometry (1844)
  • Olympic Games (1845)
  • Outlines of Astronomy, or the World as it Appears (1850)
  • Letters to Madame Pulksky, by an American Lady (1852)
  • Thoughts on the Education of Girls (1853)
  • Seed-Grain for Thought and Discussion (1856)
  • Posies for Children, a Book of Verses (1870)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lowell, Delmar R. (Delmar Rial) (1899). The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899. Harvard University. Rutland, Vt., The Tuttle co., printers. p. 119.
  2. ^ a b c Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Lowell, John" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.