Individuals >> Ballard, Anna ( Annibale )

Journalist.

Anna Ballard, a reporter for the New York Sun, was a friend and traveling companion of Ada Clare (Rawson 104). Ballard's work at the Sun included "among other things, the news stories that bobbed up in the surrogates' court" (F. M. O'Brien 286). Ballard was a "veteran journalist" and "a life member of the New York Press Club" (Olcott, 21). She was also a member of The Theosophical Society, and presented a paper on one of its important figures, Jacob Boehme (Blavatsky & Besant 437). Her association with Pfaff's remains uncertain.

References & Biographical Resources

Blavatsky, H. P. and Besant, A., eds. Lucifer a Theosophical Magazine, March to August 1891. 1891: 437. [more about this work]

Mentions a paper Ballard presented on Jacob Boehme. [pages: 437]

Haynes, John Edward. Pseudonyms of Authors: Including Anonyms and Initialisms. New York, 1882. [more about this work]

This text identifies the following pseudonym: Annibale (105). [pages: 105]

O'Brien, Frank M. The story of the Sun, New York, 1833-1918. New York: G.H. Doran, 1918. [more about this work]

States that, "[a]nother Sun woman of that time was Miss Anna Ballard, who wrote, among other things, the news stories that bobbed up in the surrogates' court" (286). [pages: 286]

Olcott, Henry Steel. Old Diary Leaves: The True Story of the Theosophical Society. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. [more about this work]

Describes Anna Ballard as "a veteran journalist" and "a life member of the New York Press Club" (21). Includes a letter from Ballard to the author in which she describes her first meeting with Madame Blavatsky in July 1873, while under assignment from the Sun to write an article about a Russian subject (21-22). [pages: 21-22, 29, 222]

Rawson, A. L. "A Bygone Bohemia." Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. 1896. 96-107. [more about this work]

A member of Clare 's coterie of Bohemians. She accompanied Clare to Cuba (104). [pages: 104]