Anna Maria Mead Chalmers
BornDetroit, Michigan, US
DiedAlbemarle County, Virginia, US
Genrechildren's literature

Anna Maria Mead Chalmers (born Anna Maria Campbell Hickman July 23, 1809 – December 8, 1891) was an American journalist and children's literature writer.

Biography

Anna Maria Mead Chalmers was born on July 23, 1809, in Detroit.[1]

In February 1830, she married George Alexander Otis, Jr. He died in 1831. In 1837, she married Rev. Zachariah Mead.[2] He died on 27 November 1840. In 1841, she opened a Richmond boarding school, Mrs. Mead's School.[3] On 3 January 1856, she married David Chalmers. In 1863, she moved to New York.[2]

She wrote children's books. Her work appeared in the Boston Home Journal, the New York Churchman, the New York Tribune, and the Southern Literary Messenger.[3]

Chalmers died on 8 December 1891 in Albemarle County, Virginia. She was buried in Shockoe Cemetery.

Selected works

  • The Good Son, 1834
  • The Good Resolution, 1834
  • The Sisters, 1834
  • Sketches By A Christian's Way-side, H. Hooker 1846.
  • Brown and Arthur, 1861

References

  1. ↑ Massachusetts, Colonial Society of (1907). Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. The Society.
  2. 1 2 "The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers | Beehive". www.masshist.org. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  3. 1 2 "Renee Savits – Encyclopedia Virginia". Retrieved 2021-05-13.

Further reading

  • Edward Campbell Mead, A Biographical Sketch, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers: In Memoriam, E. Waddey Company, 1893


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