[1] Anne Toppan Wilbur Wood was born on June 20, 1817 in Wendell, Massachusetts.

She was the daughter of Hervey Wilbur, Congregationalist minister and author.

[2] Her first translation of Verne was the short story "A Voyage in a Balloon," published in Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art, May 1852.

A Story of True Love," published in Graham’s Magazine, April 1853.

[3] Her other translations include The Romance of a Mummy (1863), a translation of Théophile Gautier's Le Roman de la Momie (1858), and The Solitary of Juan Fernandez ; or, The Real Robinson Crusoe (1851).