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Laura E. Richards (1850-1943), circa 1870-1900. Courtesy Wikipedia.

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Born February 27, 1850(1850-Template:MONTHNUMBER-27)
74 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Died January 14, 1943(1943-Template:MONTHNUMBER-14) (aged 92)
Notable award(s) 1917 Pulitzer Prize
Spouse(s) Henry Richards
Children 7 (Alice Maud, Rosalind, Henry Howe, Julia Ward, Maud, John, Laura Elizabeth)
Relative(s) Father Samuel Gridley Howe
Mother Julia Ward Howe
Sister Maud Howe Elliott

Laura Elizabeth Richards (February 27, 1850 - January 14, 1943) was an American poet, biographer, and children's writer. A children's poem for which she is known is the nonsense verse "Eletelephony."

Life[]

Richards was born Laura Elizabeth Howe, in Boston, Massachusetts, to a high-profile family. Her mother was poet Julia Ward Howe, famous for writing the words to The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. Samuel Gridley Howe's famous pupil Laura Bridgman was Laura's namesake.

In 1871, Laura married Henry Richards. He would accept a management position in 1876 at his family's paper mill at Gardiner, Maine, where the couple moved with their 3 children.

During her life, she wrote over 90 books, including children's, biographies, poetry, and others.

Writing[]

The Encyclopædia Britannica, in its survey of "Children's Literature", refers to "the topflight nonsense verses of Laura E. Richards, whose collected rhymes in Tirra Lirra (1932) will almost bear comparison with those of Edward Lear."[1]

Recognition[]

In 1917, Richards and her sister, Maud Howe Elliot, won a Pulitzer Prize for Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, a biography of their mother which they co-authored.[2]

Her children's book Tirra Lirra won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959.

Laura E. Richards School is a pre-kindergarten through grade 2 school attended by students in Gardiner and South Gardiner, Maine.[3]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Sketches and Scraps (pictures by Henry Richards). Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1881.
  • L.E.R., 1886. Gardiner, ME: privately published, 1886.
  • "Song of the Maine Progressive" (broadside), Gardiner, ME: [no date, but before 1912].
  • To Arms! Songs of the Great War. Boston: Page, 1918 [1917].
  • Tirra Lirra: Rhymes old and new. Boston: Little, Brown, 1932.
  • Please! Rhymes of protest. Gardiner, ME: privately published, 1936.
  • I Have a Song to Sing You: Still more rhymes. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1938.
  • The Hottentot, and other ditties. New York: G. Schirmer, 1939.

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

Juvenile[]

Verse[]

  • Kaspar Kroak's Kaleidoscope (with Henry Baldwin). Troy, NY: Nims & Knight, 1886.
  • Tell-Tale from Hill and Dale. Troy, NY: Nims & Knight, 1886.
  • In My Nursery: A Book of Verse. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.
  • Sun Down Songs. Boston: Little, Brown, 1899.
  • The Hurdy-Gurdy. Boston: Dana Estes, 1902.
  • The Piccolo: poems. Boston: Dana Estes, 1906.
  • Merry-Go-Round: New rhymes and old. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935.
  • Merryweather Songs. Gardiner, ME: privately published, [no date].

Stories[]

Hildegarde series
Melody series
Margaret series
  • The Three Margarets (illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry). Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1897.
  • Margaret Montfort. Boston: Dana Estes, 1898.
  • Peggy (illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry}. Boston: Dana Estes, 1899.
  • Rita (illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry).. Boston: Dana Estes, 1900.
  • Fernley House (illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry). Boston: Dana Estes, 1901.
  • The Merryweathers (illustrated by Julia Ward Richards). Boston: Dana Estes, 1904.
Mrs. Tree series
Honor Bright series
  • Honor Bright. Boston: Page, 1920.
  • Honor Bright's New Adventure. Boston: L.C. Page, 1925.

Collected editions[]

  • Laura E. Richards and Gardiner. Gardiner, ME: Gardiner Public Library Association, 1940.

Edited[]


Laura_E._Richards_'Eletelephony'

Laura E. Richards 'Eletelephony'

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Calhoun Library Quarterly.[5]

Poems by Laura E. Richards[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ↑ Laura E. Richards, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. Web, Apr. 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ Richards, Laura E., Maine: An Encyclopedia, Publius Research, 2011. Web, Apr. 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ Laura E. Richards School, Maine School Administrative District #11. Web, Apr. 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ Laura E. Richards, Toto's Merry Winter, Project Gutenberg. Web, Apr. 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ Phlo Calhoun and Howell J. Heaney, "A checklist of the separately published works of Laura E. Richards," Calhoun Library Quarterly 5:12 (Berkeley Electronic Press, 1961), 337. Web, Apr. 10, 2013.

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