Born: 16 July 1659, United Kingdom
Died: 29 October 1685
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: Anne Lee
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, an American writer, a founder and the first historian of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. She has written a number of entertaining and instructive books, her favorite subjects being those of Colonial and Revolutionary times.
In 1893 she was appointed a judge at the Chicago World’s Fair, and she is an honorary member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Her works include: St. Bartholomew’s Eve, Colonial Days and Dames, Life of Martha Washington, Social Life in the Early Republic, and English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans.