Anna Steese Richardson
American writer and editor (1865–1949)
Anna Steese Richardson (April 5, 1865 – May 10, 1949) was an American writer and editor.
Anna Steese Sausser Richardson was born on April 5, 1865, in Massillon, Ohio. 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. She came to New York City about 1921. As of 1938, when she gave a commencement speech at Hunter College, she was an associate editor of the Companion. She died on May 10, 1949, at 903 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York.
Publications
Miss Mosher of Colorado; or, A Mountain Psyche (play, 1899)
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)
"The Danger Age for Children: A Message to Mothers". Compliments of Fletcher's Castoria, New York, N.Y.
Etiquette at a Glance (1927)
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.
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