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Annie Adams Fields

Born: 6 June 1834, United States
Died: 5 January 1915
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Ann West Adams

The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.

Annie Adams Fields (1834-1915) hosted an influential literary salon at her family home on Charles Street. She supported many women writers and engaged in significant charitable work.

Although the home of Annie Adams Fields (1834-1915) and her husband, publisher James T. Fields, at the end of Charles Street, does not survive, it was the site of their important literary salon. After his death in 1881, Annie Fields continued to support the work of many women writers, including Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) who spent winters with her, poet Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). Fields was also active in charitable works. She spent many hours at the Charity House on Chardon Street and co-founded the Cooperative Society of Visitors, a case review agency that made recommendations to the central administration of Boston’s relief organizations for aid disbursement. The Society was absorbed into the Associated Charities of Boston. Fields’ book How to Help the Poor (1884) served as an unofficial guide to the programs and policies of Associated Charities.

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