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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 .
The Laura E. Richards House stood in a residential area just south of downtown Gardiner. It was a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, interior end chimneys, and clapboard exterior with denticulated cornice. The main facade faced northeast toward Dennis Street, and was five bays wide, with the center entrance framed by ...
Laura Anning Bell, British artist, born Laura Richard Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
Maud Howe Elliott (November 9, 1854 – March 19, 1948) was an American novelist, most notable for her Pulitzer Prize-winning collaboration with her sisters, Laura E. Richards and Florence Hall, on their mother's biography The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916).
In 1927 Star Bright, Laura E. Richards' sequel to Captain January, was published by L. C. Page & Co. It tells of Star Bright, now called by her birth name of Isabel Maynard, and her life with fashionable people. In the end she returns to her beloved lighthouse and marries Bob Peet, who is now the lighthouse keeper.
Julia Ward Howe (/ h aʊ / HOW; [1] May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was an American author and poet, known for writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as new lyrics to an existing song, and the original 1870 pacifist Mothers' Day Proclamation.
June 4 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography, (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history, for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days.