"Standard Etiquette" 1925 RICHARDSON, Anna Steese
$150
RICHARDSON, Anna Steese
[557] pp.
Harper & Brothers
1925
9 1/4" x 6 1/2"
STANDARD ETIQUETTE is an illustrated vintage guide to manners and social etiquette. Anna Steese Sausser Richardson (1865 - 1949) was an American writer and editor. 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. Richardson wrote for many newspapers and magazines, often covering theatre. She reported on and helped to shape the evolving themes of the twentieth century, particularly as related to women. An activist at heart, Richardson founded the Better Babies Bureau to which can be traced much of modern health work for mothers and infants. Richardson worked as a war correspondent for the Companion, McClure's, and the Pictorial Review during World War I in France. She later founded the Good Citizenship Bureau for the purpose of educating women in civic responsibility. Best known as an editor and columnist of the Woman's Home Companion beginning in 1903, Richardson's career also included newspaper reporting, journalism, and play-writing. She achieved Broadway success with "Big Hearted Herbert," co-authored by Sophie Kerr in 1933, which was made into a movie. In 1936 Richardson, as Associate Editor of the Woman's Home Companion and Director of the Good Citizenship Bureau, was awarded an honorary degree of Master of Science in Business Administration by Bryant College in Providence, Rhode Island. The same year she also received the Advertising & Selling Silver Medal for "distinguished exposition of advertising as a social force," and was one of twenty-four women honored at the Career Women's Dinner.