author
Annie Eliot Trumbull
1857–1949
A Hartford writer with a gift for warm, observant storytelling, she wrote novels, short stories, and plays rooted in everyday life. Her work is closely linked with Connecticut’s literary world at the turn of the twentieth century.
2 Audiobooks
A Christmas Accident and Other Stories
by Annie Eliot Trumbull
Stories of New York
by Annie Eliot Trumbull, George A. (George Abiah) Hibbard, Bliss Perry, Edith Wharton, John Seymour Wood
About the author
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, on March 2, 1857, she belonged to a notably literary and scholarly family. Her father was James Hammond Trumbull, a historian and philologist, and her aunt was writer Annie Trumbull Slosson. She graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1876 and remained strongly associated with Hartford's literary "Golden Age."
Writing under the name Annie Eliot as well as Annie Eliot Trumbull, she published seven novels, two plays, and many short stories in magazines including The Atlantic, Lippincott's, New England Magazine, The Outlook, and Scribner's. Among the books linked to her today are White Birches, A Cape Cod Week, and A Christmas Accident and Other Stories.
She died in Hartford on December 22, 1949. No clearly suitable portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed here, so no author photo is included.