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Katharine Susan Anthony was born on November 27, 1877 in Roseville, Arkansas, United States, the daughter of Ernest Augustus Anthony and Susan Jane Cathey, a pioneer suffragette.
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Katharine Susan Anthony was born on November 27, 1877 in Roseville, Arkansas, United States, the daughter of Ernest Augustus Anthony and Susan Jane Cathey, a pioneer suffragette.
Following a public school education in Fort Smith, Arkansas, she attended Peabody Normal College, Nashville, Tennessee, from 1895 to 1897 on a scholarship.
She taught briefly in the public schools of Fort Smith before resuming education at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg, where she took additional courses in German, psychology, and philosophy (1901-1902).
She completed her formal education at the University of Chicago, earning a Ph. B.
From 1907 to 1908, Anthony taught English at Wellesley College. Subsequently she settled in New York City, where she combined social service work with writing. While working for the Russell Sage Foundation (1909-1913), as well as other social service organizations, she did economic research, analyzing statistics, drawing up reports, and preparing various studies. Anthony's first major book, Mothers Who Must Earn (1914), funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, was a detailed study of 370 tenement mothers who had to work to support their families.
She interviewed many women in their homes to glean human insights as well as the economic and sociological data. The result was a perceptive and sympathetic portrait of bleak and difficult lives.
This deep interest in women's issues and the women's movement came naturally. Anthony's mother had been a pioneer worker for women's suffrage. In 1915 Anthony published Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia, a study of women's education, employment, and political status. The work also discussed illegitimacy and the new area of state maternity insurance and support of women in that part of Europe.
In 1917, Anthony compiled Labor Laws of New York: A Handbook for the Consumers' League. Anthony then turned from such social topics to the field of biography, specializing almost exclusively in women. Her admiration of Sigmund Freud's theories and writings influenced her choice of subjects as well as her treatment of them. Margaret Fuller: A Psychological Biography (1920); Catherine the Great (1925); Queen Elizabeth (1929); Marie Antoinette (1933); Louisa May Alcott (1938); and The Lambs (1945) clearly reveal this predisposition. Anthony also wrote Dolly Madison: Her Life and Times (1949); Susan B. Anthony: Her Personal History and Her Era (1954); and First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren (1958).
Although Anthony's biographies were based on extensive historical research and reading, their reviews were mixed. Some critics considered her Freudian interpretations simplistic. This was particularly true of studies of Fuller, Catherine the Great, Alcott, and the Lambs. In portraying the troubled life of Fuller, Anthony explained her personality in terms of childhood hysteria and later neuroticism. Alcott is described as a psychically wounded, sex-starved spinster possessing little humor and affection.
In The Lambs, Anthony theorized that in addition to Mary's insanity and Charles's drinking, they suffered from an Electra and Orestes complex, respectively. Their writing, she said, was a sublimation of incestuous love.
Anthony's popular biography of Catherine, a Literary Guild selection in 1925, was written after a trip to the Soviet Union in 1923. Subsequently she translated Catherine's letters and diaries as Memoirs of Catherine the Great (1927). The biography of Queen Elizabeth, which was less psychoanalytical, was among the most popular books of 1929. A Literary Guild selection, it was translated into French.
Anthony traveled widely in the United States and Europe, doing research and gathering historical background for her writing. She was fluent in German and French and also knew Russian.
Among Anthony’s friends and colleagues were the Bolshevik and first female ambassador of the Soviet Union, Alexandra Kollontay; Swiss psychiatrist, free thinker, and feminist August Forel; social reformer, labor leader, author, and editor Helen Marot; German feminist and socialist Clara Zetkin; authors Hannah and Matthew Josephson; American historians Charles and Mary Beard; and social reformer Edith Abbott. A member of the New York–based Heterodoxy Club, an organization of unconventional and “progressive” men and women, Anthony socialized with the political and artistic elite of the city.
Anthony contributed to many periodicals, including Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Home Companion, and the New Republic. One series of articles in the Woman's Home Companion (July, August, and September 1926) is a charming vignette of a camping trip she took with a friend and her dog back to the South. She also contributed an essay on the American family in Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans (1922), edited by Harold E. Stearns.
In 1917 she campaigned against conscription, and in 1932 she rode in a Chicago peace parade.
She died in New York City in 1965.
Anthony lived and worked as a successful author and women's rights advocate for more than fifty-five years and became a prominent writer of famous women's biographies. She lived a life that was quiet, productive, and not within the parameters of what was considered a typical American woman’s experience.
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Although never active in politics, she closely watched current events.
She was also very much interested in the emerging power and evolving status of the Soviet Union.
She combined her idealism with reality and was able to mold a life that suited her while enabling her to hold onto the Eastern urban lifestyle that she loved.
Her choice of biographical subjects and her adaptive writing style indicate that she was a pragmatist as much as she was a feminist, pacifist, and socialist.
Anthony never married, but she had a female partner, Elisabeth Irwin. They adopted two daughters, Mrs Howard Gresens of Plandome, New York and Mrs R. O. Bogue of Pensacola, Florida.
They maintained a summer home Gaylordsville, Connecticut, having called themselves the "gay ladies of Gaylordsville". They were buried together in this town.
