Anna Matlack Richards

Anna Matlack Richards (1834–1900) was a 19th-century American children's author, poet and translator best known for her fantasy novel, A New Alice in the Old Wonderland.

[citation needed] In 1856 she married landscape and maritime painter William Trost Richards.

Anna Richards Brewster, their sixth child, went on to become an important painter in her own right, having received an early arts education from her father as well.

In 1881 Matlack published Dramatic Sonnets, a collection of verses designed "to give expression to every possible form of conflicting thought and feeling".

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.