Anne Ellis

For the papyrologist and historian, see Ann Ellis Hanson.

Anne Ellis (1875–1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs^[1] chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The University of Colorado awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.^[2]

Anne Ellis
Anne Ellis, Santa Barbara, 1935
Born	1875
Died	1938 (aged 62–63)
Occupation	author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	memoir

She covered subjects including cooking for a telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.^[3]

Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the Colorado Convention Center.^[4] As of 1996^[update] the Saguache County Museum in Saguache, Colorado had a display on her.^[5]

Selected publications

• The Life of An Ordinary Woman (1929)^[6]
• Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman (1931)^[7][8]
• Sunshine Preferred; The Philosophy of an Ordinary Woman (1934)^[9][10]