Annie Maria Barnes

Annie Maria Barnes
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Annie Maria Barnes May 28, 1857 Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Died	October 21 1933 or December 31 1943
Pen name	"Cousin Annie"
Occupation	Author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	juvenile literature, novels
Subject	missionary stories[1]
Notable works	The Acanthus

Annie Maria Barnes (pen name, Cousin Annie; May 28, 1857 – October 21 1933 or December 31 1943) was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and author from South Carolina. At the age of eleven, she wrote an article for the Atlanta Constitution, and at the age of fifteen, she became a regular correspondent of that journal. In 1887, she began publishing The Acanthus, a juvenile paper published in the Southern United States. Barnes published novels from 1887 (Some lowly lives and the heights they reached) until at least 1927 (A knight of Carolina).