Anna de Koven

Anna de Koven (née Farwell) (November 19, 1862 – January 12, 1953)[1] was an American novelist, historian and socialite.

Career

The wife of famed composer Reginald de Koven, and the daughter of senator Charles B. Farwell, she published her works as Mrs. Reginald de Koven.[2] 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."[3] 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).

Bibliography
  • By the Waters of Babylon (1890)
  • A Sawdust Doll (1895) [4]
  • Life and Letters of John Paul Jones (1913) [5][6]
  • The Counts of Gruyère (1916) [7]
  • A Cloud of Witnesses (1920) [8]
  • A Primer of Citizenship (1923)
  • A Musician and His Wife (1926)
  • Horace Walpole and Madame du Deffand: an Eighteenth Century Friendship (1929)
  • Women in Cycles of Culture (1941)

Notes
  1. "ANNA F. DE KOVEN, AUTHOR AND POET; Widow of Composer Dies at 92 in Northeast Harbor, Me.--Also Wrote for Periodicals". The New York Times. 13 January 1953. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  2. "REGINALD DE KOVEN BURIED.; His Own Compositions Played at Services in Cathedral of St. John". The New York Times. 21 January 1920. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  3. Dyreson, Mark. Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience. University of Illinois Press, 1998.
  4. Koven, Mrs Reginald de (22 September 1895). A Sawdust Doll. Retrieved 22 September 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  5. De Koven, Anna (22 September 2017). "The life and letters of John Paul Jones". New York, C. Scribner's Sons. Retrieved 22 September 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  6. De Koven, Anna (22 September 2017). "The life and letters of John Paul Jones". New York, C. Scribner's Sons. Retrieved 22 September 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  7. De Koven, Anna (22 September 2017). "The counts of Gruyère". New York, Duffield & company. Retrieved 22 September 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  8. Anna De Koven (22 September 2017). "A Cloud of Witnesses". Dutton. Retrieved 22 September 2017 – via Internet Archive.
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