Anthony, Katharine Susan (1877–1965)
Anthony, Katharine Susan (1877–1965)
American writer and feminist. Born Katharine Susan Anthony in Roseville, Arkansas, on November 27, 1877; died in 1965; daughter of Ernest Augustus Anthony (brother of suffragist Susan B. Anthony) and Susan Jane (Cathey) Anthony; niece of Susan B. Anthony; attended Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, for two years; granted B.S. from University of Chicago; spent one year abroad studying at the universities of Frieburg and Heidelberg; never married; no children.
After teaching at Wellesley College, Katharine Susan Anthony moved to New York to take up writing; she also did some social research and editorial work for the Russell Sage Foundation. Influenced by her aunt, Susan B. Anthony , and her mother, Susan Jane Anthony , both pioneers in the woman suffrage movement, Katharine continued working in that area with books and articles. She wrote Mothers Who Must Earn (1914); Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia (1915); Margaret Fuller : A Psychological Biography (1920); Catherine the Great (1925); Queen Elizabeth I (1929); Marie Antoinette (1923); Louisa May Alcott (1937); and Susan B. Anthony: Her Personal History and Her Era (1954). Her last book, on Mercy Otis Warren , was published in 1958, when she was 81.