Anthony, Katharine

Anthony, Katharine

▪ American biographer
born Nov. 27, 1877, Roseville, Ark., U.S.
died Nov. 20, 1965, New York, N.Y.
 American biographer best known for The Lambs (1945), a controversial study of the British writers Charles and Mary Lamb. The greater portion of her work examined the lives of notable American women.

      A college teacher of geometry, Anthony was deeply interested in psychiatry. Eventually this interest came to shape her approach to biography, and her books centred increasingly on the psychological development and motivation of her subjects. Some of these works include Margaret Fuller, A Psychological Biography (1920); Catherine the Great (1925); Louisa May Alcott (1938); Dolly Madison, Her Life and Times (1949); and Susan B. Anthony, Her Personal History and Her Era (1954). Anthony's readers were scandalized by The Lambs, subtitled A Story of Pre-Victorian England, in which she theorized that incestuous feelings within the Lamb family were reflected in the lives and literary collaborations of Charles Lamb and his sister, Mary. As with her previous biographies, The Lambs brought a mixed response from critics, many of whom objected to her unscholarly approach to biography and her unprofessional application of psychoanalytic theory.

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