Anna Matlack Richards
Anna Matlack Richards | |
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| Born | Anna Matlack 1834 |
| Died | 1900 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | William Trost Richards |
Anna Matlock Richards (1834–1900) was an American children's author, playwright and poet, who is best known for her fantasy novel, A New Alice in the Old Wonderland.
Biography
Anna Matlack Richards was raised in a prominent intellectual Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to Carolyn Sigler, Anna Matlack was already known as a poet and playwright before she married landscape and maritime painter William Trost Richards in 1856, aged 20 or 21.[1] Matlack and Richards frequently traveled abroad, living in Cornwall, England between 1878 to 1880. The couple had eight children, five of whom lived past infancy. Matlack educated her children at home to a high level.[2] One of their sons, Theodore William Richards, would later win the 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their sixth child, a daughter, Anna Richards Brewster, when on to become an important painter in her own right, having received an early arts education from her father as well. In the 1890s, Richards published comic poems for children in the popular children's magazines Harper's Young People and The St. Nicholas Magazine. The success of these comics led her to publish A New Alice in the Old Wonderland in 1895, which featured illustrations by her daughter Anna Richards Brewster. Mother and daughter collaborated on several publications, including Letter and spirit, dramatic sonnets of inward life, published 1898, and a translation of a German folktale, Sintram and His Companions.[3]
Publications
- A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, published in 1895
- Letter and spirit, dramatic sonnets of inward life, published in 1898
- Sintram and His Companions, translation
References
- ^ Sigler, Carolyn, ed. (October 1997). Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" Books: An Anthology. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2028-4. LCCN 97-2205
- ^ Tenney Brewster, William; Richards Brewster, Anna (1954). A Book of Sketches. p. 1.
- ^ Brewter McClatchy, Susan (2008). Maxwell, Judith (ed.). Anna Richards Brewster American Impressionist. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-520-25749-8.
Sources
- Sigler, Carolyn (1996). "Brave New Alice: Anna Matlack Richards's Maternal Wonderland". Children's Literature 24, pp. 55–73. Reprint at Project Muse (muse.jhu.edu).
- Sigler, Carolyn, ed. (October 1997). Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" Books: An Anthology. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2028-4.
- Judith Kafka Maxwell (ed) Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist, University of California Press, 2008, ISBN 9780520257498
External links
- [1] Letter and spirit, dramatic sonnets of inward life, published 1898, at HathiTrust Digital Library
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