Introduction

Biography

Anna was the daugh­ter of Pres­by­ter­ian min­is­ter Will­iam Young Brown and Flo­ra Ro­bert­son, and wife of Sam­uel Mc­Cune Lind­say (mar­ried 1896).

She was edu­cat­ed at Well­es­ley Col­lege, Mas­sa­chu­setts; Ox­ford Uni­vers­ity, Eng­land; and the Uni­vers­ity of Penn­syl­van­ia, Phi­la­del­phia (where in 1892 she be­came the first wo­man to earn a doc­tor­ate).

She lat­er served as a pro­fes­sor at Well­es­ley, and a trus­tee of the col­lege (1906–18).

Works

• Culture and Re­form (New York: Tho­mas Y. Crow­ell, 1896)
• What Is Worth While? (New York: Crow­ell, cir­ca 1897)
• Giving What We Have (New York: Tho­mas Y. Crow­ell, 1897)
• What Good Does Wish­ing Do? (New York: Tho­mas Y. Crow­ell, 1898)
• The War­ri­ors (New York: Tho­mas Y. Crow­ell, 1903)
• The Vic­to­ry of Our Faith (New York: Tho­mas Y. Crow­ell, 1904)
• The War­ri­or Spir­it in the Re­pub­lic of God (New York: Mac­mil­lan, 1906)
• Gloria Chris­ti (New York: Mac­mil­lan, 1907)
• The Spir­it­ual Care of a Child (New York: Tho­mas Y. Crow­ell, 1907)