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Anna Steese Richardson

Anna Steese Richardson

American writer and editor (1865–1949)

Anna Steese Richardson (April 5, 1865 – May 10, 1949) was an American writer and editor.

Richardson circa 1913

Anna Steese Sausser Richardson was born on April 5, 1865, in Massillon, Ohio.[1] She began her career as a newspaper reporter in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and worked at several other papers before joining the Woman's Home Companion.[2] She came to New York City about 1921.[3] As of 1938, when she gave a commencement speech at Hunter College, she was an associate editor of the Companion.[4] She died on May 10, 1949, at 903 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York.[1]

Publications

  • Miss Mosher of Colorado; or, A Mountain Psyche (play, 1899)[5]
  • Better Babies and Their Care (1914) Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York
  • The Girl Who Earns Her Own Living (1909) B.W. Dodge & Co., New York
  • Adventures in Thrift (1916)
  • Why Not Marry (1917) The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis.
  • Standard Etiquette (1923)[6]
  • "The Danger Age for Children: A Message to Mothers". Compliments of Fletcher's Castoria, New York, N.Y.
  • Etiquette at a Glance (1927)[7]
  • A Manual For Club Women (1929) I.C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc, New York.
  • "Is the women’s club dying?", Harpers Magazine, October, 1929
  • Big Hearted Herbert (with Sophie Kerr), Samuel French, New York, 1934. (film: Big Hearted Herbert)

In the 1927 silent crime-drama film Chicago, a minor character, Charleston Lou, is in one scene reading a passage of Richardson's Standard Etiquette.

References

  1. [1]
    "Anna Richardson, Author and Editor". The New York Times. May 11, 1949. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Anna Steese Richardson Got Her Start Writing News the Men Ignored". The Christian Science Monitor. July 15, 1942. p. 12. ProQuest 513993608.
  3. [3]
    Shuler, Marjorie (May 21, 1937). "Anna Steese Richardson—Counted Best Friend And Keenest Critic of Women's Clubs". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 10. ProQuest 514318100.
  4. [4]
    "951 Get Degrees At Hunter 74th Commencement". New York Herald Tribune. June 16, 1938. p. 23. ProQuest 1254180773.
  5. [5]
    Davis, Gwenn; Joyce, Beverly A., eds. (1992). Drama by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers. University of Toronto Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-8020-2797-0. OCLC 25096163.
  6. [6]
    Brock, H. I. (July 5, 1925). "Conduct Becoming a Lady". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  7. [7]
    "Review of Etiquette at a Glance". The New York Times. December 11, 1927. ProQuest 104016761.


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