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Anna Fuller
1853–1916
An American novelist and short story writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts, she wrote lively fiction in the 1890s and early 1900s, including the well-known comic novel A Literary Courtship. Her work often blends wit, travel, and close observation of everyday character.
3 Audiobooks
A Venetian June
by Anna Fuller
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
by Anna Fuller
A Bookful of Girls
by Anna Fuller
About the author
Born on November 9, 1853, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Anna Fuller was the daughter of Robert Henry Fuller and Mary Lucretia Bent Fuller. She studied at Abbot Academy in Andover and went on to build a career as a novelist and short story writer.
Fuller published a steady run of books, including A Literary Courtship: Under the Auspices of Pike's Peak, Peak and Prairie: From a Colorado Sketch-Book, A Venetian June, Pratt Portraits, One of the Pilgrims, Katherine Day, and A Bookful of Girls. Her writing was noticed for its light touch and for the way it turned travel, social life, and New England settings into entertaining fiction.
She died in Boston on July 11, 1916. While she is not as widely read today as some of her contemporaries, her books still offer a clear glimpse of American literary life at the turn of the twentieth century.