{PARA sPAR@ ` ╫TEXT ` ╔Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe1850╨1943writer of children╒s booksBorn in Boston on February 27, 1850, Laura Howe was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe. She was named for Laura Bridgman, her father╒s most celebrated pupil. She grew up in a cultivated home where authors, philosophers, and distinguished persons of every sort were frequent guests; her more formal education occurred in Boston private schools. In June 1871 she married Henry Richards, an architect with whom she lived in Boston until 1876 and thereafter in Gardiner, Maine. Although she had enjoyed writing for her own pleasure since childhood, it was not until 1873 that she published anything. In that year several of her nonsense rhymes and nursery songs appeared in St. Nicholas magazine for children. A collection of such pieces appeared in book form in 1881 as Sketches & Scraps, which enjoyed wide popularity, and in the same year she published a collection of stories under the title Five Mice in a Mouse-Trap. Subsequent books included The Joyous Story of Toto, 1885, Toto╒s Merry Winter, 1887, Queen Hildegarde, first of a series of novels for young girls, 1889, In My Nursery, verses, 1890, Captain January, her most popular book with sales of some 300,000 copies (it was twice made into a movie), 1890, Hildegarde╒s Holiday, 1891, Hildegarde╒s Home, 1892, Melody, 1893, When I Was Your Age, a volume of childhood reminiscences, 1894, Glimpses of the French Court, 1893, Marie, 1894, Nautilus, 1895, Jim of Hellas, 1895, Five Minute Stories, 1895, Narcissa, 1896, Isla Heron, 1896, Some Say, 1896, Hildegarde╒s Harvest, 1897, Three Margarets, which began another series for girls, 1897, Margaret Montfort, 1898, Love and Rocks, 1898, Rosin the Beau, 1898, Peggy, 1899, Rita, 1900, For Tommy, 1900, Quicksilver Sue, 1901, Mrs. Tree, 1902, The Hurdy Gurdy, more verses, 1902, The Green Satin Gown, 1903, The Golden Windows, 1903, The Merryweathers, 1904, Mrs. Tree╒s Will, 1905, The Piccolo, verses, 1906, The Silver Crown, 1906, Grandmother, 1907, The Life of Florence Nightingale For Young People, 1909, Up to Calvin╒s, 1910, Two Noble Lives, about her parents, 1911, Miss Jimmy, 1912, The Little Master, 1913, Three Minute Stories, 1914, The Life of Julia Ward Howe, with her sister Maud Howe Elliott, which won the first Pulitzer Prize for biography, 1915, The Life of Elizabeth Fry, 1916, The Life of Abigail Adams, 1917, The Life of Joan of Arc, 1919, Honor Bright, 1920, The Squire, 1923, Oriental Operettas, 1924, Star Bright, 1927, Laura Bridgman, a biography, 1928, Stepping Westward, an autobiography, 1931, Tirra Lirra, verses, 1932, Samuel Gridley Howe, biography, 1935, E.A.R., on her young friend, the poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1936, and I Have a Song to Sing You, 1938. She also edited her father╒s Letters and Journals in two volumes, 1906╨1909. Richards was active in many civic and philanthropic organizations. She founded the local Woman╒s Philanthropic Union in 1895 and was its president for 26 years, and she was president of the Maine Consumers╒ League from 1905 to 1911. From 1900 to 1932 she assisted her husband in running Camp Merryweather, a pioneering summer camp for boys. She died in Gardiner, Maine, on January 14, 1943.
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