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Anne's Tablet

Women writers of the late 19th century are represented on Mackinac Island by Constance Fenimore Woolson. A friend of Henry James (some say more), she wrote Anne, a popular novel, in the 1880s about a young girl who had all sorts of adventures on the Island during the fur trade era. The Samuel Mather family from Cleveland, admirers of Woolson, erected this memorial in 1916.