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- Anna Farquhar (née , Farquhar; after marriage, Bergengren; pen name, Margaret Allston; December 23, 1865 – ?) was an American author and editor. A singer's heart (1897) and The devil's plough (1901) were published under her maiden name, "Anna Farquhar", but she used a pseudonym, "Margaret Allston", thereafter. Of Scotch-English ancestry, Farquhar's ancestors came to the United States in the time of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore's settling in Maryland, near Baltimore. She was born in 1865, near Brookville, Indiana, her father being a lawyer and a member of Congress from that state. Her father's death made her determine upon a career for herself and she chose a musical education, but her health failed while studying in Boston, and she was ultimately obliged to give up singing, in which she had already attained fair success. Farquhar served as assistant editor of National Magazine. She wrote for the Boston Transcript, Detroit Free Press, and Springfield Republican during her musical career. While studying vocal music in London and Paris, she was employed as a foreign correspondent to the Boston Transcript. She also did much other magazine work. Her story The Singer's Heart expressed her professional ambitions. The Professor's Daughter was published in the Saturday Evening Post and was very popular. Under the pen name of "Margaret Allston", Her Boston Experiences initially appeared in a magazine, and book form in 1899. The Devil's Plough was a story of the early French missionaries of North America. During her life in Washington, D.C., she obtained the material for her book Her Washington Experiences, her first real success as a writer. She was also the author of Letters of a Cabinet Member's Wife, 1897. (en)
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- Anna Farquhar (née , Farquhar; after marriage, Bergengren; pen name, Margaret Allston; December 23, 1865 – ?) was an American author and editor. A singer's heart (1897) and The devil's plough (1901) were published under her maiden name, "Anna Farquhar", but she used a pseudonym, "Margaret Allston", thereafter. (en)
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