Anne Ellis | |
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Born | 1875 |
Died | 1938 (aged 62–63) |
Occupation | author |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Genre | memoir |
Anne Ellis (1875 - 1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs[1] chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The University of Colorado awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.[2]
She covered subjects including cooking for a telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.[3]
Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the Colorado Convention Center.[4] As of 1996[update] the Saguache County Museum in Saguache, Colorado had a display on her.[5]
Selected publications
- The Life of An Ordinary Woman (1929)[6]
- Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman (1931)[7][8]
- Sunshine Preferred; The Philosophy of an Ordinary Woman (1934)[9][10]
References
- ^ McFarland, Ron (2014). The Rockies in First Person: A Critical Study of Recent American Memoirs from the Region. McFarland. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7864-5163-0 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Anne Ellis papers". Rare and Distinctive Collections. University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
- ^ Armitage, Shelley. "Ellis, Anne". American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present – via Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ Morreale, Don (June 2020). "A Colorado Panorama: Chief Ouray and Anne Ellis". Your Hub. Denver Post. Archived from the original on 4 December 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ Quillen, Martha (May 1, 1996). "The Life of an Ordinary Woman, by Anne Ellis". Colorado Central Magazine.
- ^ West, Elliott (1989). Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier. UNM Press. pp. 47–49. ISBN 9780826311559 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ellis, Anne (1997). Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803267363 – via Google Books. 1997 reprint of 1934 work with introduction
- ^ Jensen, Joan M. (1995). One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern American West. UNM Press. pp. 121–124. ISBN 9780826315397 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Catalogue record for "Sunshine preferred"". Worldcat. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ Ellis, Anne (1984). Sunshine preferred: the philosophy of an ordinary woman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803218109. 1984 reprint of 1934 work, with introduction
Further reading
- Colorado Quarterly (Summer 1955)
- New York Times (August 30, 1931 and August 19, 1934)
- New York Times Review of Books (September 29, 1929)