April 1, 1855

Agnes Repplier, gentle essayist, was born on April 1, 1855 and lived productives decades until
December 15, 1950, These are just a few of the books she wrote:


Philadelphia: The Place and the People (1898)
In Our Convent Days (1905)
The Cat (1912)
Germany and Democracy (1914; with J. William White)
The Promise of the Bell: Christmas in Philadelphia (1924)
To Think of Tea! (1932)
In Pursuit of Laughter (1936)

The Fireside Sphinx, (1901) sketches a history of the cat although she was not the first cat anthologist.