BARR, AMELIA EDITH (HUDDLESTON) Anglo-American novelist, was born in Ulverston, England, on March 29, 1831. In 185o she married Robert Barr and four years later went with him to the United States, where they settled in Austin, Tex., removing in 1867 to Galveston. There her husband and three sons died of yellow fever. Three daughters remained to her, and in 1869 she took them to New York city where she was a teacher for two years and then wrote for magazines and news papers. Her first novel, Romance and Reality (1872), was fol lowed by more than 6o others, the best known of which is Jan Vedder's Wife (1885) . Her work is characterized by historical settings, generally English, Scotch or colonial American.
See All the Days of My Life (1913), an autobiography.