Anna Steese Richardson

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

Richardson circa 1913
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).[6]
  • Why Not Marry (1917) The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis.
  • Standard Etiquette (1923)[7]
  • "The Danger Age for Children: A Message to Mothers". Compliments of Fletcher's Castoria, New York, N.Y.
  • Etiquette at a Glance (1927)[8]
  • 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, was in one scene reading a passage of Richardson's Standard Etiquette.

References
  1. "Anna Richardson, Author and Editor". The New York Times. May 11, 1949. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  2. "Anna Steese Richardson Got Her Start Writing News the Men Ignored". The Christian Science Monitor. July 15, 1942. p. 12. ProQuest 513993608.
  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. "951 Get Degrees At Hunter 74th Commencement". New York Herald Tribune. June 16, 1938. p. 23. ProQuest 1254180773.
  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. Grimes, Janet; Daims, Diva (1981). Novels in English by Women, 1891–1920: A Preliminary Checklist. Garland. p. 475. ISBN 0-8240-9522-7. OCLC 7196880.
  7. Brock, H. I. (July 5, 1925). "Conduct Becoming a Lady". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  8. "Review of Etiquette at a Glance". The New York Times. December 11, 1927. ProQuest 104016761.


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