About the author

Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919) was an Anglo-American novelist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Because public information is limited, details of her early life, education and nationality cannot be confirmed and are not speculated upon here. The collection holds 26 of her works, chiefly historical romances and regional fiction, along with an autobiography. Remember the Alamo draws on the Texas War of Independence, The Bow of Orange Ribbon is set in New York, while A Daughter of Fife, Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl and An Orkney Maid focus on Scottish fishing villages and island life, as do A Knight of the Nets and Jan Vedder's Wife. Her autobiography, All the Days of My Life, can be read alongside her novels. Barr wrote in a plain style, often portraying ordinary people's fortunes and family loyalties; her books found a wide readership in the English-speaking world and are now mainly of interest to students of nineteenth-century popular and regional fiction.

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