Amelia Edith Barr

• Born: March 29, 1831
• Birthplace: England
• Died: March 10, 1919

Novelist Amelia Edit Barr was born in England, but moved to Texas with her husband and two children when she was in her twenties. She and her husband had another four children. In 1867, the family moved to Galveston, TX, and the husband and three sons died there of yellow fever within a few weeks. Nearly penniless, Barr and her three daughters moved to New York City, where she began to write newspaper articles, short stories and ads.

Barr's first novel was entitled, Romance and Reality (1872), and was instantly successful. She went on to write some 70 books, with the last one, The Paper Cup published in 1918. She was considered a pioneer of the American historical novel. In 1913, she published her autobiography, All the Days of My Life.

Most Famous Works

• Romance and Reality (1872)
• Jan Vedder's Wife (1885)
• The Bow of Orange Ribbon (1886)
• Remember the Alamo (1888)

Quotes:

"Old age is the verdict of life."

"With renunciation life begins."

"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

"Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on."

"This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away."

"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."

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