Anna Gardner

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Anna Gardner
Tristram Coffin

Anna Gardner (January 25, 1816 – February 18, 1901) was an American

abolitionist and teacher, as well as an ardent reformer, a staunch supporter of women's rights, and the author of several volumes in prose and verse.[1][2]

Gardner, of

freedmen's schools in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. In 1878, she returned to New York, where soon afterward, she was severely injured in a carriage accident. After many weeks of suffering and a partial recovery, she returned to her old home in Nantucket. She lectured several times before the Nantucket Athenaeum. Gardner was a fluent writer, and in 1881, she published her best work in a volume of prose and verse entitled Harvest Gleanings.[3]

Early life

Anna Gardner was born on the island of Nantucket, January 25, 1816. Her father, Oliver C. Gardner, was related to most of the prominent families in Nantucket, among whom were the Cartwrights, and through them Gardner was descended from

Tristram Coffin, the first magistrate of Nantucket. Seven generations of her ancestors lived in Nantucket. Gardner's literary tastes and talents were inherited from her mother, who was known for her love of classical poetry. On her father's side, also, she received a literary strain, as the Cartwright family has produced poets in each generation.[4]

Career

Gardner became aware of slavery at an early age. She became a student, teacher, lecturer, and worker in the cause of

Methodist Church and was unprepared for the call made upon him. Nevertheless, he responded and electrified his audience. Gardner spent many years in teaching the freed men in the South. Her work was done in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.[4]

She returned to the North in 1878,[2] and in Brooklyn, New York, she was injured by a carriage accident. After long weeks of suffering, a partial recovery, and crutches, she returned to her Nantucket home, where she continued to be engaged in teaching those around her, and writing in the interests of truth and philanthropy. Besides her antislavery work, Gardner worked in the cause of women's rights. She lectured several times before the Nantucket Athenæum. In 1881, she published a volume of prose and verse, entitled Harvest Gleanings.[6]

Gardner died February 18, 1901.[7]

References

  1. ^ Jenness 2014, p. 18.
  2. ^ a b Douglas-Lithgow 1914, p. 230.
  3. ^ D. Appleton and Company 1902, p. 427.
  4. ^ a b Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 312.
  5. ^ Douglas-Lithgow 1914, p. 229.
  6. ^ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 313.
  7. ^ Folger 1911, p. 46.

Attribution

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: D. Appleton and Company (1902). The Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (Public domain ed.). D. Appleton and Company.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Douglas-Lithgow, Robert Alexander (1914). Nantucket: A History (Public domain ed.). G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 229.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Folger, Eva Celine Grear (1911). The Glacier's Gift: With Fourteen Illustrations (Public domain ed.). Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company. p. 46.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 312.

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