When I Was Your Age by Laura Elizabeth Richards

The Hurdy-Gurdy (Boston, Massachusetts: D. - The bonny young Flora sat sighing her lane, The dew on her plaid.Snow-White, or The House in the Wood, 1900.Chop-Chin and the Golden Dragon, 1899.The Social Possibilities of a Country Town, 1897.Some Say and Neighbors in Cyrus, 1896.Jim of Helas, or in Durance Vile, 1895.Captain January, 1890 (made into a movie with Shirley Temple in 1936).Babyhood: Rhymes and Stories, Pictures and Silhouettes for Our Little Ones, 1878.Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the. Her children’s book Tirra Lirra won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959. Laura Elizabeth Howe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1850. In 1917, Laura won a Pulitzer Prize for Julia Ward Howe, 1819–1910, a biography she co-wrote with her sister, Maud Howe Elliott. American author Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850 1943) wrote more than ninety books, many of them delightful morality tales especially for children. An elementary school in Gardiner was named after her.

In 1876, he accepted a management position at his family’s paper mill at Gardiner, Maine, where the couple moved with their three children. In 1871, Laura married Henry Richards. Samuel’s famous pupil Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman was Laura’s namesake. Laura was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. Born: February 27, 1850, Boston, Massachusetts.ĭied: January 14, 1943, Gardiner, Maine.īuried: Christ Church Cemetery, Gardiner, Maine.

When I Was Your Age by Laura Elizabeth Richards