Anna de Koven explained

Anna de Koven
Birth Name:Anna Farwell
Birth Date:19 November 1862
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois
Death Place:Northeast Harbor, Maine
Occupation:Writer
Children:1
Father:Charles B. Farwell
Mother:Mary Evelyn Farwell
Relatives:Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor (sister)
Education:Lake Forest University

Anna de Koven (née Farwell; November 19, 1862  - January 12, 1953)[1] was an American novelist, historian and socialite. The wife of composer Reginald de Koven, she published her works as Mrs. Reginald de Koven.

Career

Anna Farwell was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 19, 1860, the daughter of senator Charles B. Farwell and Mary Evelyn Farwell (née Smith). She was the valedictorian of her class at Lake Forest University.[2]

She married composer Reginald de Koven on May 1, 1884, and they had one child.[2] [3] A well-known society hostess, she and her husband gave many musical receptions while living in their home in Irving Place in New York. An amateur athlete, she wrote in Good Housekeeping that "no sport is too reckless, too daring, or too strenuous for the more experienced among athletic American women."[4]

Her novels included 1895's a Sawdust Doll, published by Stone and Kimball as part of "the Peacock Library." Her non-fictional works included a two-volume biography of John Paul Jones, published in 1913, and a study of spiritualism, A Cloud of Witnesses (1920), based on her efforts to contact her late sister, Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor (1870-1918).

Anna de Koven died in Northeast Harbor, Maine on January 12, 1953.[1] [5]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. News: Anna F. de Koven, Author and Poet; Widow of Composer Dies at 92 in Northeast Harbor, Me.--Also Wrote for Periodicals . 12 June 2020 . . 13 January 1953 . subscription.
  2. Book: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . XVI . James T. White & Company . 290 . 1918 . 2020-12-11 . Google Books.
  3. News: Reginald de Koven Buried.; His Own Compositions Played at Services in Cathedral of St. John. . 12 June 2020 . . 21 January 1920 . subscription.
  4. Dyreson, Mark. Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience. University of Illinois Press, 1998.
  5. News: Anna de Koven, Author, Dies at 92 in Maine . . 41 . 1953-01-13 . 2020-12-11 . Newspapers.com.
  6. Book: Koven, Mrs Reginald de. A Sawdust Doll. 22 September 1895. 22 September 2017. Internet Archive.
  7. Web site: The life and letters of John Paul Jones. Anna. De Koven. 22 September 2017. New York, C. Scribner's Sons. 22 September 2017. Internet Archive.
  8. Web site: The life and letters of John Paul Jones. Anna. De Koven. 22 September 2017. New York, C. Scribner's Sons. 22 September 2017. Internet Archive.
  9. Web site: The counts of Gruyère. Anna. De Koven. 22 September 2017. New York, Duffield & company. 22 September 2017. Internet Archive.
  10. Web site: A Cloud of Witnesses. Anna De Koven. 22 September 2017. Dutton. 22 September 2017. Internet Archive.