Date of birth: 13 October 1890
Date of death: 4 September 1968
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Full name: Anna Maria Louisa Perrott Rose Wright. She wrote children's books and stories under the name Anna Maria Wright. In 1950, she was working in New Jersey as a teacher, and she adopted a disturbed Latvian war orphan named Andritins. She wrote the book Gentle House (1954) about this experience, and she went on to write books and articles about her adopted children, under the name Anna Perrott Rose.

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