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Agness Greene Foster
1863–1933
An Alabama-born writer and editor, she wrote travel letters, poems, and gift books that brought a warm, personal voice to early 20th-century readers. Her best-known work, By the Way, turns journeys across Europe into lively, observant sketches.
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By the Way: Travel Letters Written During Several Journeys Abroad
by Agness Greene Foster
About the author
Born in Athens, Alabama, on December 6, 1863, Agness Greene Foster was an American writer and editor. Reference sources connect her with an unusually wide education, including study in Dublin, Blois, and Chicago, before she built a literary career of her own.
She wrote in several forms, from occasional verse and gift books to travel writing. Her best-known book, By the Way (1910), gathers letters from travels through England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, blending description with an easy, conversational style.
Foster also published works such as You & Some Others and other books of poems for special occasions, showing a talent for writing that was both graceful and accessible. She died in 1933, and her work remains a small but appealing window into the reading tastes and travel imagination of her era.