Anna Maria Mead Chalmers

Anna Maria Mead Chalmers (born Anna Maria Campbell Hickman July 23, 1809 – December 8, 1891) was an American journalist and children's literature writer.

Anna Maria Mead Chalmers
BornJuly 23, 1809 Edit this on Wikidata
DiedDecember 8, 1891 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 82)

Biography

Anna Maria Mead Chalmers was born on July 23, 1809, in Detroit.[1]

In February 1830, she married George Alexander Otis, Jr. He died in 1831. In 1837, she married Rev. Zachariah Mead.[2] He died on 27 November 1840. In 1841, she opened a Richmond boarding school, Mrs. Mead's School.[3] On 3 January 1856, she married David Chalmers. In 1863, she moved to New York.[2]

She wrote children's books. Her work appeared in the Boston Home Journal, the New York Churchman, the New York Tribune, and the Southern Literary Messenger.[3]

Chalmers died on 8 December 1891 in Albemarle County, Virginia. She was buried in Shockoe Cemetery.

Selected works
  • The Good Son, 1834
  • The Good Resolution, 1834
  • The Sisters, 1834
  • Sketches By A Christian's Way-side, H. Hooker 1846.
  • Brown and Arthur, 1861

References
  1. Massachusetts, Colonial Society of (1907). Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. The Society.
  2. "The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers | Beehive". www.masshist.org. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  3. "Renee Savits – Encyclopedia Virginia". Retrieved 2021-05-13.

Further reading
  • Edward Campbell Mead, A Biographical Sketch, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers: In Memoriam, E. Waddey Company, 1893


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