Anna Steese Richardson

Anna Steese Richardson 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

Better Babies and Their Care Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York
B.W. Dodge & Co., New York Adventures in Thrift Why Not Marry The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis.Standard Etiquette
"The Danger Age for Children: A Message to Mothers". Compliments of Fletcher's Castoria, New York, N.Y. Etiquette at a Glance
A Manual For Club Women I.C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc, New York.
"Is the women’s club dying?",
Big Hearted Herbert, Samuel French, New York, 1934.

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.