ANNE PRATT (MRS. JOHN PEARLESS)
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Born at Strood, Dec. 5, 1806; died in London, July 27, 1893. An English nature-writer, whose books achieved great popularity. Among them are: "Flowers and their Associations" (new ed. 1840); "Field, Garden, and Woodland" (for the young, new ed. 1843); "Chapters on Common Things of the Seaside" (1850); "Green Fields, their Grasses" (1852); "Our Native Songsters" (1852); "Wild Flowers" (1853); "Flowering Plants, Grasses, and Ferns of Great Britain" (1854); etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- An American writer of popular romances; born at Lancaster, Mass., 1800; died Marianna, Fla., Feb. 11, 1856. Among her works may be named: "Aunt Patty's Scrap-Bag"(1846); "The Mob Cap"(1848); Planter's Northern Bride"(1854); etc.