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Catselbow/Annie Crawford
Baroness Annie Crawford von Rabe
Born	(1846-01-11)January 11, 1846 Rome, Italy
Died	December 18, 1912(1912-12-18) (aged 66) Rome, Italy

Baroness Annie Crawford von Rabe (January 11, 1846 – December 18, 1912), born Annie Crawford, was an American author who spent most of her life in Rome and Northern Poland. She was the eldest child of sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward. Her siblings included writers Francis Marion Crawford and Mary Crawford Fraser (usually known as Mrs. Hugh Fraser). She was the niece of Julia Ward Howe, the American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Annie Crawford is known for two novellas titled A Mystery of the Campagna (1886) and A Shadow on a Wave (1891), written under the pseudonym Von Degen. The first of these has been included in several anthologies of supernatural fiction and is often cited as an early example of the vampire story.

Biography

Parents

Painting on ivory by Anne Hall, depicting Louisa Cutler Ward (wife first of Thomas Crawford and later Luther Terry).

Thomas Crawford (sculptor)

Detail from Thomas Crawford's bronze door for the U.S. Senate. Julia Ward Howe said that these figures were modeled after Crawford's family, and that the rightmost figure, dressed as a boy, was modeled after Annie Crawford.

The Crawford Household

Engraving by Giuseppe Vasi showing the Villa Peretti, known later as the Villa Negroni, in Rome, Italy.

A painting by Jean-Thomas Thibault showing the gardens of the Villa Negroni in Rome.

Trees in the Villa Negroni planted by Michelangelo.

Excavation of an ancient building at the Villa Negroni.