She was known as Annie, and she received her education at Geelong High School and at a private institution in St Kilda, Victoria.
[1] On 21 January 1874, she married James Wilson at St Enochs station near Skipton, Victoria.
[3] Her husband had bought 6,210 acres (2,510 ha) of land in the Rangitikei District of New Zealand in 1873, and by the end of 1874, the Wilsons were living there.
[4] Annie Wilson's first book of poems, Themes and Variations, came out in London in 1889 and was followed by a novel, Alice Lauder, a Sketch, in 1893.
In 1901 A Book of Verses was published (new and slightly enlarged edition, 1917), a collection of her poems from English, American and Australian magazines.