The Maid of Maiden Lane

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919) was a British-American novelist, whose career blossomed in the landscape of American literature. Born in Lancashire, England, Barr was the daughter of William Huddleston, a Wesleyan minister. Emigrating to America in 1850 after marrying William Barr, her life took a tragic turn with the loss of her husband and three children to yellow fever in the late 1860...