The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wister, Annis Lee Furness

WISTER, Annis Lee Furness, American translator: b. Philadelphia, Pa., 9 Oct. 1830; d. Philadelphia, Pa., 15 Nov. 1908. She was married to Dr Caspar Wister (d. 1888) in 1854. She made many translations of note, among them F. Marlitt's &lsquo;The Old Mamselle's Secret&rsquo; (1868); &lsquo;Gold Else&rsquo; (1868); &lsquo;The Countess

Gisela&rsquo; (1860); &lsquo;The Little Moorland Princess&rsquo; (1873); and &lsquo;The Second Wife&rsquo; (1874); Wilhelmine von Hillern's &lsquo;Only a Girl&rsquo; (1870); Hackländer's &lsquo;Enchanting and Enchanted&rsquo; (1871); Volkhausen's &lsquo;Why Did He Not Die&rsquo; (1871); Von Auer's &lsquo;It Is the Fashion&rsquo; (1872); and Fanny Lewald's &lsquo;Hulda; or, The Deliverer&rsquo; (1874). Her translations were issued in a uniform edition of 30 volumes in 1888. With F. H. Hedge (q.v.) she published &lsquo;Metrical Translations and Poems&rsquo; (1888).