Anne Ellis

Anne Ellis
Anne Ellis, Santa Barbara, 1935
Anne Ellis, Santa Barbara, 1935
Born1875
Died1938 (aged 62–63)
Occupationauthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Genrememoir

Anne Ellis (1875 - 1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs[1] chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The University of Colorado awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.[2]

She covered subjects including cooking for a telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.[3]

Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the Colorado Convention Center.[4] As of 1996 the Saguache County Museum in Saguache, Colorado had a display on her.[5]

  1. ^ McFarland, Ron (2014). The Rockies in First Person: A Critical Study of Recent American Memoirs from the Region. McFarland. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7864-5163-0 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Anne Ellis papers". Rare and Distinctive Collections. University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  3. ^ Armitage, Shelley. "Ellis, Anne". American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present – via Encyclopedia.com.
  4. ^ Morreale, Don (June 2020). "A Colorado Panorama: Chief Ouray and Anne Ellis". Your Hub. Denver Post. Archived from the original on 4 December 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  5. ^ Quillen, Martha (May 1, 1996). "The Life of an Ordinary Woman, by Anne Ellis". Colorado Central Magazine.