Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust

Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust was a British writer and researcher whose best-known book, The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages, was first published in 1902. The book traces medieval ivory carving across periods and regions, and it has remained accessible through later editions and public-domain archives, which suggests a lasting interest in her work.

She also assisted her father, Robert Needham Cust, on Reminiscences of relations (on my father's side)..., showing that her published work was not limited to a single field. The available records consistently identify her dates as 1870–1959.

Although detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, her surviving work presents her as a careful historical writer with a strong interest in art, objects, and the people who made them.