Annah Robinson Watson

Who is Annah Robinson Watson?

Annah Robinson Watson was an American author, the founding member of the Nineteenth Century Club, and a collector of folklore.

Born Annah Robinson, she resided in Memphis, Tennessee. She published tales and superstitions collected from African-American peoples, apparently in the dialect of the teller, and speculated on a type of ethnographic racialism.

Her works include Some Notable Families of America, Of Sceptred Race, Passion Flowers and a paper—"Comparative Afro-American Folk-Lore"—read at the International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.