“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.”

About Amelia Barr

Author • British-American

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr was a prolific British-American novelist and short story writer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Lancashire, England, she immigrated to the United States in 1853,...