author
Anna B. (Anna Bolles) Williams
b. 1840
Remembered as a 19th-century American writer for young readers, she also helped preserve an unusual corner of Connecticut history through a later collaborative book. The record that survives is slim, but it points to a life rooted in New London and in family history writing.
1 Audiobook
The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut
by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles, Anna B. (Anna Bolles) Williams
About the author
Anna B. Williams, also listed as Anna Bolles Williams, was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1840. Reference works describe her as an American writer of juvenile stories, and bibliographic records connect her with titles including Birchwood and The Fitchville Tribe.
She is also known as the co-author of The Rogerenes: Some Hitherto Unpublished Annals Belonging to the Colonial History of Connecticut, published in the early 20th century with John R. Bolles. That work helped document the Rogerenes, a small religious sect in colonial Connecticut, showing her interest in local and family-connected history as well as storytelling.
Little widely available biographical detail appears to survive beyond those basic facts, which makes her one of many once-published writers whose books outlast the story of their everyday lives. Even so, the pieces that remain suggest a writer with ties to New England history and to literature for younger readers.