Item Detail
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Bowman, Anne (1796?-1886)
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A. B.; Miss Anne Bowman
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children's writer, travel writer, novelist, domestic science writer, bookseller, cookery writer, poet
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English; born in Stanwick St. John, North Yorkshire
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daughter of Ann Pulleine Johnston & Thomas Bowman
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- Household Books Published in Britain: 1475-1914. Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, RMI UC Davis (http://householdbooks.ucdavis.edu/)
- Women in Literature and Society: Catalogue 804. London: Pickering & Chatto, [n.d.] (https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Catalogues_and_Lists_files/804_Women.pdf)
- Summer Miscellany: Catalogue 796. London: Pickering & Chatto, [n.d.]. (https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Catalogues_and_Lists_files/796_Summer_Miscellany.pdf)
- England and Wales Census 51,61,81
- FamilySearch
- Worms, Laurence. "Tom and the Crocodiles." The Bookhunter on Safari. 9 November 2017. Ash Rare Books (https://ashrarebooks.com/2017/11/09/tom-and-the-crocodiles/)
- Catalogue of the Extraordinary Library, Unique of its Kind, Formed by the Late Rev. F. J. Stainforth, Consisting Entirely of Works of British & American Poetesses and Female Dramatic Writers, Together with Some Interesting Unpublished Manuscripts and Autograph Letters, also a Few Engravings, Framed and Glazed, which will be Sold by Auction ... [Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1850-1880, Vol. 6.] Davy & Sons, 1867. (https://books.google.com/books?id=3T5bAAAAQAAJ&pg)
- HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org/)
- Google Books
- Bassett, Troy J. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. © 2022 Troy J. Bassett (http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/)
- "Athenaeum Index: Contributor Record. Contributor: Massey, Gerald." MinorVictorianWriters.org (https://minorvictorianwriters.org.uk/massey/documents/Massey_Athenaeum_reviews.PDF)
- Short Title Listing of the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books: Letter E. Trinity College, Dublin (https://www.tcd.ie/library/epb/assets/pdf/Pollard_list_E.pdf)
- Catalogue of the Edinburgh Subscription Library, 1845-1865, with Laws of the Society, List of Members, etc. etc. Edinburgh: Printed for the Library, 1866.
- Melman, Billie. Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality, Religion and Work. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1992.
- Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/)
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• wrote The Young Nile Voyagers Rolando's Travels Esperanza, or, The Home of the Wanderers The Boy Voyagers The New Cookery Book The Common Things of Everyday Life The Home-Book of Domestic Economy Tom and the Crocodiles The Boy Pilgrims Charade Dramas for the Drawing-Room How to Make the Best of It Young Exiles The Castaways, or, The Adventures of a Family in the Wilds of Africa The Kangaroo Hunters, or, Adventures in the Bush The Young Yachtsmen The Bear Hunters of the Rocky Mountains Among the Tartar Tents Laura Temple • compiled Poetry Selected for the Use of Schools and Families