Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915) was an American writer and literary hostess, born in Boston. As the wife of the publisher James T. Fields, she presided over a salon at 148 Charles Street, attended by Hawthorne, Longfellow, Dickens and other leading writers.

She wrote poems, memoirs and biographies, including Authors and Friends (1896) and Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1897).