Laura (Howe) Richards (1850-1943)

Mrs Laura Elizabeth (Howe) Richards, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

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She wrote more than 90-books including biographies, poetry, and children's books. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse "Eletelephony". She won a Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1918 for a book about her mother.

Parents

Samuel Gridley Howe

Dr Samuel Gridley Howe, Abolitionist & Director of the Perkins Institution

1801-1876

Julia Ward Howe

Mrs Julia (Ward) Howe, Author, Abolitionist, Social Activist, Feminist

1819-1910

Spouse

Henry Richards

Henry Richards, of the "Yellow House" 3 Dennis Street, Gardiner, Maine.

1848-1949

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Literati & the Arts