Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr was a prolific writer of romance and historical novels, and she enjoyed tremendous popular success during the 1890s. Her historical novels, particularly Remember the Alamo (1888), are valuable as artistic representations of actual events and people. In her works of pure fiction, she usually invents plots in which a virtuous Christian character triumphs. Her main talent lies in creating enjoyable narratives and clear descriptions of real places.

Amelia Edith Huddleston was born on 29 March 1831 in Ulverston, a village in Lancashire, England, to William Henry Huddleston and Mary Singleton Huddleston. She spent her childhood in northern England and Scotland, attending several small private schools as her father, a Methodist minister, moved among pastoral assignments. In All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography, the Red Leaves of a Human Heart (1913), she writes of her happy childhood: "My physical being was well cared for by loving parents...