| Main entry | Logan, Annie Robertson MacFarlane |
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| Birth place | St. John, New Brunswick |
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| Birth date | 26 May 1851 |
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| Death place | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Death date | 9 March 1933 |
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| Identifier | 0206 |
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| Birth name | Annie Robertson MacFarlane |
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| Married name | Logan |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Presbyterian |
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| Paid work | journalist |
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| Other work | lecturer, Montreal Women's Club |
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| Biography | Born in St. John, New Brunswick, Annie Robertson MacFarlane (1851-1933) was not able to attend the University of New Brunswick like her brothers, and so studied at the province's Provincial Normal School in Fredericton. She later lived in New York where she contributed work to SCRIBNER'S, the SATURDAY EVENING POST, and was the literary critic for THE NATION. Sent to Montreal by the paper to write a series of sketches on French Canadians and to collect material for "The Story of Canada" as part of Putnam & Sons' "Stories of the Nations" Series, Annie met and married John Edward Logan (1852-1915), the poet who used the pseudonym, "Barry Dane." Annie continued to work for THE NATION from Montreal. She also published a novel and a work of history on Samuel de Champlain. Widowed in 1915, Annie spent her later years travelling between Ireland, Bermuda and Montreal. She donated $8000 in 1929 to found the William Stuart MacFarlane scholarship at the University of New Brunswick, in honour of her brother (who was married to American author Margaret Russell MacFarlane). Annie died at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal in 1933. |
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| Residences | St. John, New Brunswick (1851); Fredericton, New Brunswick; St. John (1871); New York (1889); Montreal (1889-1933) |
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| Geographic regions | New Brunswick; Quebec |
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| Primary genres | fiction; non-fiction |
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| Books | THE CHILDREN OF THE HEARTH (1886); AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES OF SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, AND OF THE FOUNDING OF QUEBEC (1908) |
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| Periodicals | HARPER'S WEEKLY; THE NATION; SATURDAY EVENING POST; SCRIBNER'S |
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| Organizations | Women's Antiquarian Society |
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| Father's name | James MacFarlane |
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| Life dates of father | c1820, Scotland - after 1875 |
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| Father's note | grocer |
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| Mother's name | Mary Ann Cameron |
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| Life dates of mother | c1823, New Brunswick - after 1871 |
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| Spouse 1 | John Edward Logan |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 30 September 1852, Hamilton, Ontario - 1915, Montreal, Quebec |
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| Spouse 1 note | insurance adjuster; writer, "Barry Dane"; member of the Pen and Pencil Club |
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| Marriage 1 date | 1 October 1889 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Church of the Transfiguration, New York |
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| Biographical references | Dagg, THE FEMININE GAZE (2001), p. 172; 1871 Census of Canada; 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada; New York City Marriages, 1600s-1800s; Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 329, 533; Library of Congress |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Image credits | Line drawing by Una Vernelli (Vancouver, British Columbia). |
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| Copyright | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 1980-2014. |
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