Writer and poet Laura E. Richards has a vast work – she has written more than 90 books throughout her life, most of them children’s tales with deep messages. His parents were abolitionists and this influenced the life and work of Richards deeply; in 1917 she won a Pulitzer for the biography of her mother, the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.The work of Laura E. Richards is in this book represented by seven lovely tales specially selected by the critic August Nemo:Maine to the Rescue The Coming of the King The Golden Windows The Shed Chamber The Green Satin Gown The Scarlet Leaves Don Alonzo
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Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 – January 14, 1943) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a high-profile family. During her life, she wrote over 90 books, including children’s, biographies, poetry, and others. A well-known children’s poem for which she is noted is the literary nonsense verse ‘Eletelephony.’ 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. Julia Ward Howe, Laura’s mother, was famous for writing the words to The Battle Hymn of the Republic. 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 three children. In 1917, Laura won a Pulitzer Prize for The Life of Julia Ward Howe, a biography, which she co-authored with her sister, Maud Howe Elliott.
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