An Orkney Maid — Amelia E. Barr

Amelia Edith Barr (nee Huddleston) (1831-1919) was a British-American novelist. Born in Lancashire, in 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they emigrated to the United States and settled in Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever. With her three remaining daughters Mrs. Barr removed to New York in 1869 where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semihistorical tales and novels. Her works include: Romance and Reality (1872), Scottish Sketches (1883), The Hallam Succession (1885), A Daughter of Fife (1886), The Bow of Orange Ribbon (1886), The Squire of Sandal-Side (1887), Remember the Alamo (1888), Birds of a Feather (1893), A Knight of the Nets (1896), Winter Evening Tales (1896), Trinity Bells (1899), The Maid of Maiden Lane (1900), Souls of Passage (1901), The Man Between (1906) and The Measure of a Man (1915). Her autobiography is entitled All the Days of My Life (1913).