Anna Steese Richardson Explained

Anna Steese Richardson
Birth Date:	April 5, 1865
Death Date:	May 10, 1949
Birth Place:	Massillon, Ohio

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

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 popular culture

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.

Notes and References

1. News: 1949-05-11. Anna Richardson, Author and Editor. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-02-23. 0362-4331.
2. News: Anna Steese Richardson Got Her Start Writing News the Men Ignored. July 15, 1942. The Christian Science Monitor. . 12.
3. News: Shuler. Marjorie. Anna Steese Richardson—Counted Best Friend And Keenest Critic of Women's Clubs. May 21, 1937. The Christian Science Monitor. . 10.
4. News: 951 Get Degrees At Hunter 74th Commencement. June 16, 1938. New York Herald Tribune. . 23.
5. Book: Davis. Gwenn. Joyce. Beverly A.. Drama by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers. 1992. University of Toronto Press. 0-8020-2797-0. 25096163. 129.
6. News: Brock. H. I.. 1925-07-05. Conduct Becoming a Lady. The New York Times. 2022-02-23. 0362-4331.
7. News: Review of Etiquette at a Glance. December 11, 1927. The New York Times. .