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Annie Hamilton Donnell
1862–1943
A popular American writer of stories for children and families, she brought warmth, humor, and everyday feeling to books like Rebecca Mary and The Very Small Person. Her fiction also appeared in major magazines of her time, helping her reach a wide early-20th-century readership.
9 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt
The Very Small Person
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
Rebecca Mary
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
Gloria and Treeless Street
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
Four Girls and a Compact
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
Glory and the Other Girl
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
Judith Lynn: A Story of the Sea
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
Three Young Knights
by Annie Hamilton Donnell
About the author
Born Annie Morrell Hamilton in Kents Hill, Maine, on September 11, 1862, she later became Annie Hamilton Donnell after marrying Albert Webb Donnell in 1886. A biographical entry from 1914 describes her as a writer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, educated at Woman's College in Kents Hill, and the mother of four children: Dorothy, Rachel, Lloyd, and Kenneth.
Donnell wrote fiction that was especially associated with young readers and family life. Her confirmed books include Rebecca Mary, The Very Small Person, and Camp Fidelity Girls, and bibliographies of her work show that she also published many short stories in magazines such as Harper's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, McClure's, and Everybody's.
She died in 1943. While she is not as widely remembered today as some of her contemporaries, her work still survives through public-domain editions and library collections, where readers can see the charm and emotional clarity that made her stories appealing in her own day.