Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston

Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston was a 19th-century American writer from Massachusetts. The youngest daughter of Boston's mayor and Harvard University president Josiah Quincy III, she was a member of a prominent family with a wide circle of friends, and was intimately associated with many distinguished people of her era. Waterston published her works, including poems, novels, hymns, and articles in The Atlantic Monthly. Her diary was published posthumously. A sculptor created a carved marble bust of Waterston that is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.