Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928) was an American writer and historian. Career She was born at Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1845, the daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs. She was educated at a private school in Philadelphia and received a Litt. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She devoted herself chiefly to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote a number of books and magazine articles in this field, and was chosen historian of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. She also helped to found the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America. In 1893, she was a judge at the American Colonial Exhibit at the World's Colombian Exposition at Chicago. She was also involved in genealogy and published The Genealogy of the Wharton Family in 1880. Works St. Bartholomew's Eve (1866) The Wharton Family (1880) Through Colonial Doorways (1893) Colonial Days and Dames (1894) A Last Century Maid (1895) Life of Martha Washington (1897) Heirlooms in Miniatures (1897) Salons Colonial and Republican (1900) Social Life in the Early Republic (1902) An English Honeymoon (1908) Italian Days and Ways (1908) In Château Land (1911) A Rose of Old Quebec (1913) English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915) In Old Pennsylvania Towns (1920) References External links American biographers People from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania 1845 births 1928 deaths American historians Historians of the Thirteen Colonies American women historians American women biographers