ªPARA ₧PAR@ ` åTEXT ` xJohnston, Annie Fellows1863╨1931children╒s literature writerBorn on May 15, 1863, in Evansville, Indiana, Annie Fellows, an elder sister of Albion Fellows (Bacon), grew up there and in nearby McCutchanville. She attended district schools and at seventeen taught for a year. During 1881╨1882 she attended the University of Iowa, and after three more years of teaching in Evansville she worked as a secretary until October 1888, when she married William L. Johnston, a widower with three children. Inspired by that ready-made audience, she began contributing stories to the Youth╒s Companion, which, along with St. Nicholas, Little Corporal, and other magazines, had been among her own favorite childhood reading. Although she had dabbled in writing since her youth, she did not take it up seriously until after her husband╒s death in 1892. In 1894 she published her first book, Big Brother, which was followed by Joel: A Boy of Galilee, 1895, and nearly 50 more. A visit to the Pewee Valley, near Louisville, Kentucky, where her stepchildren had relatives and where she was charmed by the almost antebellum style of life and in particular by one spirited little girl, led Johnston to write The Little Colonel, 1896, the first in a series of twelve books that included also Two Little Knights of Kentucky, 1899, The Little Colonel╒s House Party, 1900, The Little Colonel╒s Holidays, 1901, The Little Colonel╒s Hero, 1902, The Little Colonel at Boarding School, 1903, The Little Colonel in Arizona, 1904, and The Little Colonel╒s Knight Comes Riding, 1907. In 1898 she settled in the Pewee Valley and lived there the rest of her life, except for the years 1901╨1910, when she took her stepson to Texas for his health. Johnston╒s of her books included In League with Israel, 1896, Songs Ysame, with her sister Albion Bacon, 1897, Cicely, 1902, Aunt ╒Liza╒s Hero, 1903, The Quilt that Jack Built, 1904, In the Desert of Waiting, 1905, Mary Ware, the Little Colonel╒s Chum, the first in a second series, 1908, The Jester╒s Sword, 1909, Mary Ware in Texas, 1910, Travellers Five, 1911, Promised Land, 1912, Georgina of the Rainbows, 1916, Georgina╒s Service Stars, 1918, and The Road of the Loving Heart, 1922. Inspirational, sentimental, and cheerful, her books were enormously popular with young girls and had sold over a million copies at the time of her death in the Pewee Valley of Kentucky on October 5, 1931. µstyl ` > ! ¬ 5¬ " 5¬ @ !I É !I ▐ ª !I C !I T !I h !I t !I v !I à !I v !I ü !I Ö !I » !I ═ 5¬ ╬ !I ▒ !I ├ !I !I " !I * !I J !I R !I o !I w !I É !I ÿ !I ╜ !I ┼ !I Γ !I ε !I !I Γ !I ≈ !I !I
!I 0 !I 6 !I > !I O !I W !I p !I x !I É !I ÿ !I ╝ !I Γ !I ⌠ !I ⁿ !I !I !I % !I - !I : !I B !I Z !I b !I z !I å !I ó !I link ` HYPR É ª
