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Anna Matlack Richards
Born	Anna Matlack 1834
Died	1900
Nationality	American
Notable works	A New Alice in the Old Wonderland
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 Matlock 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. 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. Their sixth child, a daughter, Anna Richards Brewster, received early education in painting from her father and instruction in literature, art and music from Matlack, and went on to become an important painter in her own right.<ref>

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 popularity of which led her to publish A New Alice in the Old Wonderland. 

Publications

• A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, published in 1895
• Letter and spirit, dramatic sonnets of inward life, published in 1898

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 (1898) at HathiTrust Digital Library