Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston

Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston
Born	Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy June 27, 1812 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	October 14, 1899(1899-10-14) (aged 87) Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Auburn Cemetery
Pen name	A. C. Q. W. W. A. C. Q.
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	poems, novels, hymns, diary
Spouse	Robert C. Waterston ​ ​ (m. 1840; died 1893)​
Children	Helen Ruthven Waterston
Parents	Josiah Quincy III
Relatives	Josiah Quincy II (grandfather) Josiah Quincy Jr. & Edmund Quincy (brothers)

Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston (née, Quincy; pen names, A. C. Q. W. and W. A. C. Q.; June 27, 1812 – October 14, 1899) was a 19th-century American writer of poems, novels, hymns, and a diary.^[1]

Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy was born June 27, 1812, in Boston, Massachusetts.^[2] She was the youngest daughter of Josiah Quincy III, who served as president of Harvard University, U.S. Representative, and Mayor of Boston. Her mother was Eliza Susan Morton Quincy.^[3] Anna's grandfather, Josiah Quincy II, had also served as mayor of Boston, as did her brother, Josiah. Her other siblings were: Eliza, Abigail, Maria, Margaret, and Edmund.^[4]

On April 21, 1840, she married Rev. Robert C. Waterston (1812–93).^[5] After passing two years in Europe, and, just as they were all about to return home, their daughter, Helen Ruthven Waterston (1841 - July 25, 1858), died at Naples, Italy.^[6]

Some of Waterston's verses were printed in 1863, in a small volume.^[3] She also published articles in The Atlantic Monthly.^[7] Her pen names included, "A. C. Q. W.",^[8][9] and "W. A. C. Q.".^[10]

In 1870, after visiting Jeanne Carr, Waterston left Oakland, California, for Yosemite.^[9] Waterston was able to gather around her a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. She knew well and was intimately associated with many of the most distinguished people of the former generation. When her father entertained Lafayette, she was a school girl, but the occasions made such an impression upon her mind that she retained a vivid remembrance of it in later years. The cause of the blind was important to her ever since the establishment of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind.^[8]

Waterston died October 14, 1899,^[2] at her home, No. 526 Massachusetts Avenue, in Newton, Massachusetts, where she lived since 1860, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Her carved marble bust was sculpted by Edmonia Lewis and is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[11] In 2003, her diary, written at the age of seventeen, was posthumously published under the title A Woman's Wit and Whimsy.^[7]

• Quincy
• Sketchbook, ca. 1835
• Together, 1863
• Verses, 1863
• Edmonia Lewis. (The young colored woman who has successfully modelled the bust of Colonel Shaw.)., 1865
• Adelaide Phillipps: A Record. Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1883.

• A Woman's Wit & Whimsy: The 1833 Diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.

• Quincy political family

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: American Antiquarian Society (1893). Proceedings (Public domain ed.). American Antiquarian Society.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Cushing, William (1885). Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises (Public domain ed.). T. Y. Crowell & Company. p. 297.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: The new england historical and genealogical register (1857). The new england historical and genealogical register. Vol. XI (Public domain ed.).
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Putnam, Alfred Porter (1875). Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith: Being Selections of Hymns and Other Sacred Poems of the Liberal Church in America, with Biographical Sketches of the Writers, and with Historical and Illustrative Notes (Public domain ed.). Roberts. p. 407.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John (1901). Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography (Public domain ed.). D. Appleton. p. 289.

• Sankovitch, Nina (11 April 2017). The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-4668-7811-2.
• Shannon, Hope J. (2014). Legendary Locals of Boston's South End. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-0112-7.
• Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore), Thérèse (1991). Zanita: A Tale of the Yo-semite. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 9780898154108.
• Beverly Wilson Palmer (ed.), A Woman's Wit & Whimsy: The 1833 Diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2003.

• Works by or about Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston at the Internet Archive