Draft:Susanna Louise Patteson
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Comment: What exactly is a stebographer? Theroadislong (talk) 16:54, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
- Sometimes mistakes happen User:Theroadislong. She is noted as a stenographer in this entry's body if you couldn't decipher the misspelled word, and a link was provided. FloridaArmy (talk) 17:00, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Susanna Patteson, Louise Patteson, S. L. Patteson and S. Louise Patteson should link here
Susanna Louise Patteson (1853-1922) was an American stenographer, librarian, educator, and author who wrote "Pussy Meow: the autobiography of a cat".[1] She also wrote the children's book Letters from Pussycatville.[2] She also wrote How to Have Bird Neighbors.[3] She also wrote When I was a Girl in Switzerland.[4] Her photographs were used to illustrate her books on cats. She helped organize a group to aid vagrant cats.[5]
She worked as a stenographer[6] and librarian in Cleveland, Ohio.[7] She wrote a book on stenography and advocated for higher status and educational opportunities for women's professions of the time such as nursemaids. She was a local council candidate for the prohibition ticket. She was Swiss.[8]
She was a local superintendent.[9]
In 1973, Cleveland sculptor Frank L. Jirouch was working on a sculpture honoring her.
Books
[edit]- Pianic Phonography[8]
- How to Have Bird Neighbors George W. Jacobs & Co. Philadelphia (1918)[10]
- How to Attract Birds[11]
- Pussy Meow; The autobiography of a cat
- Letters from Pussycatville (1903)[12]
- My Name is Meow
- Kitty-Kat Kimmie, A cat's tale
- Complete Manual of Pitmanic Photography, self published (1895)[13]
- When I Was a Girl in Switzerland, her memoir
Articles
[edit]- "Bird Architecture"[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pussy Meow: The autobiography of a cat, | Library of Congress". Library of Congress.
- ^ Patteson, Susanna Louise (December 5, 1903). "Letters from Pussycatville: By S. Louise Patteson ... Illustrations from Photographs by the Author". G. W. Jacobs & Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Patteson, S. Louise (Susanna Louise) (June 7, 2021). How To Have Bird Neighbors – via Project Gutenberg.
- ^ Holland, Evangeline (June 18, 2012). "When I Was a Child of Other Lands".
- ^ "Champions for the cats". The Cleveland Leader. 20 March 1904. p. 8.
- ^ "The Cleveland Directory Co.'s Cleveland (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) City Directory". Cleveland Directory Company. December 5, 1906 – via Google Books.
- ^ Education, United States Bureau of (December 5, 1893). "Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..." U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "New Professions For Women". The Plain Dealer. January 19, 1896. p. 24 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Union, Woman's Christian Temperance (December 5, 1889). "Minutes of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union at The... Annual Meeting in ... with Addresses, Reports, and Constitutions" – via Google Books.
- ^ Patteson, Susanna Louise (December 5, 1917). "How to Have Bird Neighbors". D.C. Heath – via Google Books.
- ^ Patteson, S. Louise (January 1, 2021). "How To Have Bird Neighbors: Popular Books by S. Louise Patteson : All times Bestseller Demanding Books". Beyond Books Hub – via Google Books.
- ^ Library (R.I.), Providence Public (December 5, 1903). "Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library". Snow & Farnham – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Annual American Catalogue". Publishers' Weekly. December 5, 1895 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The School Arts Magazine". School Arts Publishing Company. December 5, 1914 – via Google Books.