Fields, Annie Adams (1834-1915)

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Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, November 13, 1906

Annie Adams Fields to Jane Addams, February 26, 1911

Annie Adams Fields to Jane Addams, November 11, 1911

Jane Addams to Annie Adams Fields, November 17, 1911

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1834-06-06

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1915-01-05

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Boston, Massachusetts

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Annie Adams Fields was the second wife of publisher and author James Thomas Fields. She urged her husband to take a closer look at lesser known authors such as Emma Lazarus and Sarah Orne Jewett. Jewett was to become one of Field's closest friends. When Fields' husband died in 1881, she stayed a part of the literary scene of Boston. She lived with Jewett for the rest of Jewett's life, lasting until 1909. She compiled many biographies, including her late husband and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and wrote other forms of fiction and non-fiction.

Fields married James Thomas Fields in 1854. Fields died in 1915.