June 23, 1836, Kid­der­more, Staf­ford­shire, Eng­land.

Ju­ly 7, 1907, Bath, Eng­land.

Fair­light (near Hast­ings), Eng­land.

In 1857, Anna’s fam­i­ly moved to Ca­na­da. They lived first at Pointe-Lé­vy and then moved in 1858 to Sar­nia, On­tar­io, where her fa­ther con­tin­ued to work for the Grand Trunk Rail­way. Around that time, Anna and two old­er sis­ters, Isa­bel­la and Fran­ces, ran a girls’ school, but the school had to close af­ter the death of the old­er sisters.. An­na re­turned to Eng­land in 1863 and worked as a gov­er­ness and book re­view­er. In 1883, she mar­ried Harry Cog­hill and moved to Cog­hurst Hall, near Hast­ings, Eng­land. Her works in­clude:

• Leaves from the Back­woods (Montré­al, Can­a­da: John Lo­vell, 1861)
• A Ca­na­di­an Her­o­ine (Lon­don: Tins­ley, 1873)
• Against Her Will
• Hollywood
• Two Ri­val Lov­ers
• Lay Holme
• Mary Brown
• Plays for Child­ren
• Oak and Ma­ple: Eng­lish and Ca­na­di­an Vers­es (Lon­don: Ke­gan Paul, Trench, Trü­ber & Com­pa­ny, Ltd., 1890)
• Edited and pub­lished the Au­to­bi­o­graphy and Let­ters of her cou­sin, Mrs. Ol­i­phant, 1898

• Haeussler, pp. 602-3
• Julian, p. 1622

1. Work, for the Night Is Com­ing