Anna Maria Hall

Anna Maria Hall
Anna Maria Hall, ca. 1875
Born	6 January 1800(1800-01-06) Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Died	30 January 1881(1881-01-30) (aged 81) Devon Lodge, East Moulsey
Pen name	Mrs. S.C. Hall
Occupation	Writer (novelist)
Nationality	Irish
Period	19th century
Genres	Children's Literature

Anna Maria Hall (6 January 1800 – 30 January 1881) was an Irish novelist who often published as "Mrs. S. C. Hall". She married Samuel Carter Hall, the writer on art, who in Retrospect of a Long Life, from 1815 to 1883 (London, 1883) described her. She was born Anna Maria Fielding in Dublin, but left Ireland at the age of 15.

Works

Hall was a prolific writer; she wrote some 50 titles. Ireland was the theme for several of her most successful books, such as Sketches of Irish Character (1829), Lights and Shadows of Irish Character (1838), Marian (1839), and The Whiteboy (1845).

She wrote numerous stories for children, like Grandmamma's Pockets (1849) and Midsummer Eve: a fairy tale of love (1870), and from 1828 to 1837 she was editor of the Juvenile Forget Me Not, an annual published in London.

Other works are The Buccaneer, and many sketches in the Art Journal, of which her husband Samuel Carter Hall was editor. With him she also collaborated on a work entitled Ireland, its Scenery, Character, etc.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

External links

• Works by or about Anna Maria Hall in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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