Katharine Susan Anthony, sometimes also spelled Katherine (November 27, 1877 – November 20, 1965), was a US biographer best known for ''The Lambs'' (1945), a controversial study of the British writers

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and

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Biography

Katharine Anthony was born in Roseville, Logan County, Arkansas, the third daughter of Ernest Augustus Anthony (1846-1904) and Susan Jane Cathey (1845-1917). Her father was a grocer and later a

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. She studied at Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, the universities of

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and

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, and the

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. She received a Ph.B degree from Chicago in 1905 and taught at

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in 1907. She became a public school teacher by 1910 and worked at that time in Fort Smith,

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. She moved from Arkansas perhaps because her mother had died in 1917, and by 1920 she was living in

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with her life-partner

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(1880–1942), the founder of the

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, with whom she raised several adopted children (source: ''Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America'',

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, 1991). Her book ''Catherine the Great'' was positively reviewed in the ''New York Times'' (Dec. 20, 1925, pg BR8), which notes that Miss Anthony had, apparently for the first time, access to all of Catherine's private memoirs. Her book ''Marie Antoinette'' was called a "...fresh and original life of Marie ..." by the ''New York Times'' reviewer (Jan. 29, 1933 pg BR5). Her books ''Catherine the Great'' and ''Queen Elizabeth'' each sold more than 100,000 copies. She died at St. Vincent's Hospital, two weeks after having a heart attack. Her obituary appeared in the ''New York Times'' on Nov. 22, 1965 (pg 37). She was survived by a sister, Mrs. Blanche Brown of

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. Her funeral was in New York City, and she was buried alongside Miss Irwin, at

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, where they had a summer home.

Works

*"Mothers Who Must Earn" 1914 (reprinted in ''West Side Studies'', Ayer Company )
"Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia"
1915, Henry Holt
"Margaret Fuller: A Psychological Biography"
Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York. 1920. *"Catherine the Great". New York: Garden City Publishing Company. 1925. (reprint Mar 2003, Kessinger Publishing, 344 pages, ) *"Queen Elizabeth" 1929 (reprint Mar 2004, Kessinger Publishing, 316 pages ) *"Louisa May Alcott", Alfred A Knopf, 1938 *"First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of

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." George S MacManus Company (reprint Kennikat Press 972, c1958 Port Washington, N.Y., 258 pages ) *"The Lambs", A.A. Knopf, New York 1945, 264 pages *"Dolly Madison, Her Life and Times" 1949 *"Susan B. Anthony: Her Personal History and Her Era" 1954

References

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