Fannie Fern (Phillips) Andrews, 1867-1950

Internationally known as a lecturer and author, Fannie Fern Andrews, Ph.D., receives even wider acclaim as an authority on international law and the international aspects of education. While her interests and activities penetrate almost every phase of social life, she is chiefly identified with world relationships and has been, both before and after the World War. Dr. Andrews is extraordinarily well equipped for the multifarious tasks she undertakes as a representative of her country abroad and as an official at home, in an infinite variety of fields. She has the background of natural gifts, breadth of scholarship, extensive travels and contact with great minds and outstanding personalities. What she says or writes receives world wide attention for, to paraphrase one of hundreds of comments made upon the recent publication of two of her most important volumes, -- she is distinctly interesting, comprehensive, open-minded, and fundamentally impartial. "Personal observations never descend to the trivial. On the other hand, attention to judicial and administrative questions never loses itself in technicality. While straining always for complete authenticity and accuracy, the author maintains a high note of literary expression." (Prof. Albert Howe Lybyer.)

Dr. Fannie Fern (Phillips) Andrews, was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, the daughter of William Wallace and Anna Mariah (Brown) Phillips, the former a native of Auburn, Maine and the latter of Nova Scotia. She married, on July 16, 1890, Edwin Gasper Andrews (1858-1935) q.v., in this volume. The marriage was ideal, and there was an affinity of interests throughout Mr. Andrews' life. He approved her renewal of collegiate studies; collaborated in many of her activities, and they were mutually fond of the out-of-doors, hiking, camping and fishing together and with friends with keen enjoyment. In a gift to the Columbian Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Boston, of her greatest work, "The Holy Land Under Mandate," she wrote: "This book is inscribed to Columbian Lodge as a joint gift from the author and her husband, Edwin Gasper Andrews, who participated in the elaborate investigations into the life and conditions of the Holy Land, which form the substance of the book, and who from the first to the last, even to the reading of the proof, remained a constant help and inspiration."

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