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Amelia E. Barr

Born

in Ulverston, Lancashire, England

March 29, 1831

Died

March 10, 1919

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

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Amelia Edith Barr, née Huddleston, was an English American novelist. (See also under Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr.)

In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues.

Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long. She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine.[Caldwell,William ...more

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Average rating: 3.59 · 377 ratings · 57 reviews · 144 distinct works • Similar authors

	Remember the Alamo 3.30 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1888 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maid of Maiden Lane 3.42 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1900 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story 3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1891 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jan Vedder's Wife really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1885 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Daughter of Fife 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1886 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Orkney Maid 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I, Thou, and the Other One: A Love Story 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1898 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1886 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Evening Tales 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2005 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”
― Amelia E. Barr

tags: genius, mediocrity, speed, work

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“Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.”
― Amelia E. Barr

tags: cheerfulness, despair, determination, failure, hindrances, life, prevailing, sensitivity, success

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“All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.”
― Amelia E. Barr

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