Laura E. Richards
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Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 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 vers
Portrait of Laura E. Richards
Julia Ward Howe
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Julia Ward Howe was an American author and poet, known for writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as new lyrics to the song "John Brown's Body," and the original 1870 pacifist Mothers' Day Proclama
Laura E. Richards
…founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. She was named after his famous deaf-blind pupil Laura Bridgman. Her mother Julia Ward Howe wrote 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…
Howe in 1895
Portrait of Julia Ward Howe, by John Elliott, 1925
Is Polite Society Polite and Other Essays by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
The 1913 bas-relief plaque of Howe by Cyrus Dallin