Browse by author

Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon

Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon was an American writer, a native of Lexington, Massachusetts, and the wife of Henry Bacon (1813-1856), a Universalist minister and magazine editor. She published The Fruit of the Spirit (1842), a devotional work on the Christian graces, and after her husband's death wrote the Memoir of Rev. Henry Bacon (1857). Her sons included the Boston journalist Edwin Munroe Bacon and the painter Henry Bacon.

In the collection (1 work)

The Fruit of the Spirit (1842)

Brief devotional chapters on the Christian graces by Eliza Ann Bacon, wife of Henry Bacon of the Ladies' Repository circle — a small specimen of the devotional writing Universalist women published through the denomination's Boston press in the 1840s.

(Note: this summary was automatically generated and may be inaccurate.)