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Anne Ellis
Anne Ellis, Santa Barbara, 1935
Anne Ellis, Santa Barbara, 1935
Born1875
Died1938 (aged 62–63)
Occupationauthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Genrememoir

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 the Saguache County Museum in Saguache, Colorado had a display on her.[5]

Selected publications

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  • 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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Anne Ellis papers". Rare and Distinctive Collections. University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  3. ^ Armitage, Shelley. "Ellis, Anne". American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present – via Encyclopedia.com.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Quillen, Martha (May 1, 1996). "The Life of an Ordinary Woman, by Anne Ellis". Colorado Central Magazine.
  6. ^ West, Elliott (1989). Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier. UNM Press. pp. 47–49. ISBN 9780826311559 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Catalogue record for "Sunshine preferred"". Worldcat. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  10. ^ 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

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  • Colorado Quarterly (Summer 1955)
  • New York Times (August 30, 1931 and August 19, 1934)
  • New York Times Review of Books (September 29, 1929)