Author: Anna Whitty
Author: Anna Whitty (1828–1914)
Biography: Anna Whitty was born in 1828 in Liverpool, the daughter of newspaper proprietor Michael James Whitty, the owner of the first penny paper Liverpool Daily Post and himself an author of fiction. Her older brother was the author and journalist Edward Michael Whitty. In middle age, she published an anonymous novel Wife and Child (1869). Her authorship of the novel was revealed by her father's own newspaper. In her younger days, she earned a considerable reputation as a vocalist (some say of opera). She never married, lived with her sister Sarah, and died on 9 April 1914 in Blundellsands near Liverpool.
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References: British Census (1861, 1911); Liverpool Daily Post (29 January 1869); Nottingham and Midland Catholic News (18 April 1914); Probate
Fiction Titles:
- Wife and Child. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869.