Fernley House (Esprios Classics) by Laura E Richards
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 - January 14, 1943) was an American writer. She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse Eletelephony. Laura Elizabeth Howe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. She was named after his famous deaf-blind pupil Laura Bridgman. Her mother Julia Ward Howe wrote the words to The Battle Hymn of the Republic. In 1917 Laura won a Pulitzer Prize for Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, a biography, which she co-authored with her sisters, Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall.Laura E. Richards (1850-1943), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born in Boston to eminent parents: Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins School for the Blind, and Julia Ward Howe, social reformer and lyricist of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. In 1871, she married Henry Richards (1848-1949), architect and industrialist, and moved with him to Gardiner, Maine. Following the example of her parents, she brought about many social reforms and civic improvements in her hometown. She also wrote more than ninety works, mostly in the fields of children's literature (to please her children) and biography. Captain January (1890), a bestseller, was twice made into a movie, the second time starring Shirley Temple. Her two-volume biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe (1915), was the first biography to be honored by a Pulitzer Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781034475996 |
| ISBN 10 | 1034475991 |
| Title | Fernley House (Esprios Classics) |
| Author | Laura E Richards |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Blurb |
| Year published | 2024-08-28 |
| Number of pages | 150 |
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