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Annie Randall White
A prolific late-19th- and early-20th-century writer, this author moved easily between practical etiquette guides, religious instruction, poetry, and historical fiction. Her books offer a vivid glimpse of the values, manners, and teaching styles of their era.
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About the author
Annie Randall White was a versatile American author whose surviving bibliography shows a wide range of interests. She wrote etiquette manuals such as Polite Society at Home and Abroad and Twentieth Century Etiquette, along with religious and educational books including Bible Story-Land, Stories from the Bible, and Talks About Jesus with Our Little Boys and Girls.
Her work also included poetry and historical storytelling. Titles such as Pearls of Thought in Poem and Song and The Blue and the Gray; or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy suggest a writer who aimed both to instruct and to entertain, often with a strong moral or educational purpose.
Reliable biographical details about her personal life are hard to confirm from easily accessible sources, so much of her story has to be read through her books. Even so, the range of her publications makes clear that she was a productive writer whose work touched family life, faith, social customs, and American history.