Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields was an American writer, biographer, poet, social worker and diarist (1834–1915). She was born at Boston.

Also recorded as Annie Adams; Annie Fields; Mrs. James T. Fields; Ann West Adams.

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Identity and origins

Annie Adams Fields was recorded at birth as Ann West Adams. The authorities additionally record the headings Annie Adams, Annie Fields, Mrs. James T. Fields and Ann West Adams. Her recorded language was English.

She was the child of Zabdiel Boylston Adams and Sarah May Adams. She married James Thomas Fields.

Identity

What the record establishes about Annie Adams Fields.

Annie Adams Fields is recorded as writer, biographer, poet, social worker and diarist. Medical Women's Federation is dated 1879-1988 and held by Wellcome Collection. Annie Adams Fields is recorded with the citizenship of United States. Wellcome Collection records 2 objects associated with this heading. Annie Adams Fields is recorded at birth as Ann West Adams. Open Library catalogues 2 works under this name.

Holdings and surviving copies

James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches, with Unpublished Fragments and ... (1881) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Fields and Jewett in Europe: 1898 (2024) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

Authority records

The identifiers under which Annie Adams Fields may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Annie Adams Fields is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q566895.

Catalogued works

3 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library and Wellcome Collection.

Authors and Friends. Shelf of Old Books, by Mrs. James T. Fields. Medical Women's Federation, dated 1879-1988, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

4 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Fields, Annie Adams (1834-1915), literary hostess, author, and social reformer, American National Biography Online, 2000. Annie Adams Fields: Woman of Letters, and: The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew (review), Legacy, 2004. Fields, Annie Adams (June 6, 1834–January 5, 1915), Caribbean Women and Their Art, 2020. Annie Adams Fields: woman of letters, Choice Reviews Online, 2002.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 8 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1834Annie Adams Fields born at Boston.
  2. 1834Annie Adams Fields was born in 1834 at Boston.
  3. 1879Medical Women's Federation is dated 1879-1988 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  4. 1879Medical Women's Federation (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 1881James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches, with Unpublished Fragments and ... (1881) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  6. 1881James T. Fields: Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches, with Unpublished Fragments and ... digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1898Fields and Jewett in Europe: 1898 (2024) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  8. 1915Annie Adams Fields died.
  9. 1915Annie Adams Fields died in 1915.
  10. 2024Fields and Jewett in Europe: 1898 digitised by Internet Archive.
  11. 2024Jewett and Fields Diaries digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Those Who Know”: Henry James and Annie Adams Fields, Henry James's Feminist Afterlives, 2018

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Annie Adams Fields: Woman of Letters, and: The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew (review), Legacy, 2004

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  3. 3.

    Annie Adams Fields: woman of letters, Choice Reviews Online, 2002

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Fields, Annie Adams (1834-1915), literary hostess, author, and social reformer, American National Biography Online, 2000

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Fields, Annie Adams (June 6, 1834–January 5, 1915), Caribbean Women and Their Art, 2020

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Open Library author record for Annie Adams Fields (Internet Archive), 2 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  7. 7.

    Internet Archive, 4 digitised items catalogued under Annie Adams Fields as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 2 works naming Annie Adams Fields.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q566895: Annie Adams Fields

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  10. 10.

    “Annie Adams Fields”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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Plates

Each plate is reproduced under the terms the holding register itself publishes, with its creator and licence named.

Daguerreotype of American writer Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915).

Daguerreotype of American writer Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915).

http://www.daguerre.org/gallery/mhs/3mhs.html · Public domain

The picture record
Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields

John Singer Sargent · https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/paintings-sculpture-online/annie-adams-fields · Public domain

The picture record

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