Anna Maria Wells
Anna Maria Wells (born around 1794, died in 1868) - American prose writer and poet, known as the early author of books for children. She was born as Anna Maria Foster in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Benjamin Foster and Mary Ingersoll Foster. Her father died when she was a child. The mother remarried Joseph Locke, the father of the poet Frances Sargent Osgood. Anna Maria and her family moved to Boston, where she was studying. In 1829, she married Thomas Wells, a minor poet. She had four children with him. In 1831 she published a volume of Poems and Juvenile Sketches. Bibliography wiki