Laura Elizabeth Richards

Standard Name: Richards, Laura Elizabeth

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Ward Howe
JWH 's fourth child, Laura Elizabeth (later Richards), was born this year.
Tharp, Louise Hall. Three Saints and a Sinner. Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
166
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Ward Howe
Like her mother, Maud was a prolific writer. She worked as a columnist and investigative reporter for publications such as the Boston Transcript. In one of her early articles, published in the Critic...
Friends, Associates Julia Ward Howe
Howe and her husband had a close friendship with Theodore Parker .
Richards, Laura Elizabeth et al. Julia Ward Howe: 1819’1910. Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
106
In the preface to her collection of moral essays Is Polite Society Polite?, Howe cites him as a chief inspiration: Parker...
Textual Production Julia Ward Howe
A new but unfinished book of poems (which JWH had been working on at the time of her death in October) was assembled by her daughter Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and published posthumously by Houghton Mifflin

Timeline

September 1854: The British landed in Crimea, unopposed by...

National or international item

September 1854

The British landed in Crimea, unopposed by the Russians they had come to make war with. They went on to lay siege to Sebastopol that October and to win important victories at Balaklava (25...

Texts

Richards, Laura Elizabeth et al. Julia Ward Howe: 1819’1910. Houghton Mifflin, 1916.