Anne Ellis Explained

Anne Ellis
Birth Date:	1875
Occupation:	author
Language:	English
Nationality:	American
Genre:	memoir

Anne Ellis (1875 - 1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs^[1] chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The University of Colorado awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.^[2]

She covered subjects including cooking for a telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.^[3]

Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the Colorado Convention Center.^[4] the Saguache County Museum in Saguache, Colorado had a display on her.^[5]

Selected publications

• The Life of An Ordinary Woman (1929)^[6]
• Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman (1931)^{[7] [8]}
• Sunshine Preferred; The Philosophy of an Ordinary Woman (1934)^{[9] [10]}

Further reading

• Colorado Quarterly (Summer 1955)
• New York Times (August 30, 1931 and August 19, 1934)
• New York Times Review of Books (September 29, 1929)

Notes and References

1. Book: McFarland . Ron . The Rockies in First Person: A Critical Study of Recent American Memoirs from the Region . 2014 . McFarland . 978-0-7864-5163-0 . 40 . en . Google Books.
2. Web site: Anne Ellis papers . Rare and Distinctive Collections . University of Colorado Boulder . February 23, 2023.
3. Book: Armitage, Shelley. American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. Ellis, Anne. Encyclopedia.com.
4. Web site: Morreale . Don . A Colorado Panorama: Chief Ouray and Anne Ellis . Your Hub . Denver Post . 23 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221204225709/https://yourhub.denverpost.com/blog/2020/06/a-colorado-panorama-chief-ouray-and-anne-ellis/263112/ . 4 December 2022 . June 2020.
5. The Life of an Ordinary Woman, by Anne Ellis. Colorado Central Magazine. Martha. Quillen. May 1, 1996.
6. Book: West, Elliott. Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier. 1989. UNM Press. Google Books. 47–49. 9780826311559 .
7. Book: Ellis, Anne. Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman. 1997. U of Nebraska Press. 0803267363 . Google Books. 1997 reprint of 1934 work with introduction
8. Book: Jensen, Joan M.. One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern American West. 1995. UNM Press. 121–124. 9780826315397 . Google Books.
9. Web site: Catalogue record for "Sunshine preferred" . Worldcat . 23 February 2023.
10. Book: Ellis . Anne . Sunshine preferred: the philosophy of an ordinary woman . 1984 . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln . 9780803218109. 1984 reprint of 1934 work, with introduction