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Annie Randall White

Known for turn-of-the-century guides to manners, religion, and young readers’ history, this author wrote books that capture the tone and concerns of everyday American life in the 1890s. Her work ranges from etiquette manuals to children’s stories, with a practical, accessible style that still feels vivid today.

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The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy A Story of Patriotism and Adventure in Our War for the Union

The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy A Story of Patriotism and Adventure in Our War for the Union

by Annie Randall White

About the author

Annie Randall White was an American author whose known books were published mainly in the 1890s and around 1900. Catalog records and library listings connect her with a varied body of work that includes Polite Society at Home and Abroad (first published in 1891), Twentieth Century Etiquette (1900), and The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy (1898).

Her writing moved across several popular genres of the period. She published etiquette and self-improvement books, religious titles for home and Sunday-school reading, and historical or patriotic works for younger readers. That mix suggests a writer interested in both instruction and storytelling, especially for families and general audiences.

A great deal about her personal life is hard to confirm from readily available reliable sources, so modern readers often know her best through the books themselves. Even so, her surviving titles offer a clear picture of an author who wrote for the values, curiosities, and reading habits of late 19th-century America.