Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928) was an American writer and historian."Reviews and Gossip of New Publications: Anne Hollingsworth Wharton's Interesting Biography of Martha Washington." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 31, 1897, p. 5 (subscription required)."Colonial and Revolutionary Women," in "New Books." Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Evening Transcript, May 1, 1897, p. 20 (subscription required)."Social Life in the Early Republic." Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Appeal, August 22, 1903, p. 2 (subscription required).
Formative years Wharton was born in Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1845. The daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs, she was also a direct descendant of Robert Wharton, the longest serving mayor of Philadelphia."Anne Wharton, 83, Author, Is Dead." Burlington, Vermont: The Burlington Free Press, August 1, 1928, p. 3 (subscription required).
Educated at a private school in Philadelphia, she received a Litt. D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Career She devoted herself primarily to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote a number of books and magazine articles in this field,"Colonial and Revolutionary Women," in "New Books," Boston Evening Transcript, May 1, 1897."Social Life in the Early Republic," The Appeal, August 22, 1903. and was chosen historian of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. She also helped to found the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America."Anne Wharton, 83, Author, Is Dead," The Burlington Free Press, August 1, 1928. In 1893, she was a judge at the American Colonial Exhibit at the World's Colombian Exposition at Chicago.
She was also involved in genealogy and published The Genealogy of the Wharton Family in 1880. In 1915, the J.E. Lippincott Company published her book, English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans.""Tracing Some Ancestral Homes In England of Famous Americans, By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton." Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 4, 1915, p. 19 (subscription required).
A lifetime member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, she also served as vice president of the Browning Society of Philadelphia and was a member of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society."Anne Wharton, 83, Author, Is Dead," The Burlington Free Press, August 1, 1928.
Illness, death and interment During the summer of 1928, Wharton fell ill. She died three weeks later, at the age of eighty-three, at her home at 2220 Locust Street in Philadelphia on Sunday, July 29, 1928."Anne Wharton, 83, Author, Is Dead," The Burlington Free Press, August 1, 1928. Her funeral was held at Philadelphia's historic Christ Church."Sister of Bromley Wharton Is Dead at the Age of 83; Noted Writer and Historian." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Evening News, July 30. 1928, front page (subscription required). She was interred at The Woodlands Cemetery in the Wharton family's plot."Anne Hollingsworth Wharton." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 1, 1928, p. 27 (subscription required).
Works St. Bartholomew's Eve (1866) The Wharton Family (1880) Through Colonial Doorways (1893) Colonial Days and Dames (1894) A Last Century Maid (1895) Life of Martha Washington (1897) Heirlooms in Miniatures (1897) Salons Colonial and Republican (1900) Social Life in the Early Republic (1902) An English Honeymoon (1908) Italian Days and Ways (1908)Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum: Seitenansicht at www-gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de In Château Land (1911) A Rose of Old Quebec (1913) English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915) In Old Pennsylvania Towns (1920)
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