Anna Farquhar Bergengren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetAnna Farquhar Bergengren
American writer, editor
Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1865
Place of Birth: Brookville, Indiana, United States
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Anna Farquhar Bergengren
- Anna Farquhar Bergengren (pen name, Margaret Allston; December 23, 1865 – ?) was an American author and editor.
- Of Scotch-English ancestry, Bergengren's ancestors came to the United States in the time of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore'ssettling in Maryland, near Baltimore.
- She was born in 1865, near Brookville, Indiana, her father being a lawyer and a member of Congress from that state.
- Her father's death made her determine upon a career for herself and she chose a musical education, but her health failed while studying in Boston, and she was ultimately obliged to give up singing, in which she had already attained fair success.
- She wrote for the Boston Transcript, Detroit Free Press, and Springfield Republican during her musical career.
- While studying vocal music in London and Paris, she was employed as a foreign correspondent to the Boston Transcript.
- Her story "The Singer's Heart" expressed her professional ambitions.
- "The Professor's Daughter" was published in the Saturday Evening Post and was very popular.
- Her Boston Experiences appeared in a magazine and ultimately in book form.
- Her book, The Devil's Plough, was a story of the early French missionaries of North America.
- During her life in Washington, D.C., she obtained the material for her book Her Washington Experiences, her first real success as a writer.
- She was also the author of, A Singer's Heart; The Professor's Daughter, 1899; Letters of a Cabinet Member's Wife, 1897.
- Bergengren published Her Boston Experiences under pen name of "Margaret Allston", which sold in book form in 1899.
- Bergengren also did much other magazine work.
- In 1900, she married Ralph Wilhelm Bergengren, a Boston journalist, and continued her literary career.
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