Educated at Glasgow high school, Amelia married Robert Barr in 1850 and emigrated to America in 1854, settling in Austin, Texas. In 1864, the Barr's moved to Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children succumbed to yellow fever. In 1869, Barr, and her three remaining children moved to New York and she began to contribute articles to magazines in order to support her family. In 1872, she published her first novel, Romance and Reality, and over the next 40 years she would go on to produce more than 40 more novels. Among her many works are Cluny McPherson (1883), Scottish Sketches (1883), The Hallam Succession (1884), Jan Vedder's Wife (1885), A Daughter of Fife (1886), A Bow of Orange Ribbon (1886), Between Two Loves (1886), Remember The Alamo (1888), The House on Cherry Street (1909) and her autobiography, All The Days of My Life (1913). |
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