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Laura Richards’ parents were famous before she was born. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, who ran the Perkins Institute for the Blind where Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman were educated. (In fact, he named his own daughter after Laura Bridgman.)
- Laura E. Richards
Born Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards in Boston, Massachusetts...
- Laura E. Richards
Laura Richards’ parents were famous before she was born. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, who ran the Perkins Institute for the Blind where Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman were educated. (In fact, he named his own daughter after Laura Bridgman.)
Richards grew up in Massachusetts, her parents both abolitionists, her mother also an activist poet who crafted the Union's theme song during the American Civil War. She married and moved to Gardiner, Maine to raise three children.
Her father, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, was a cofounder and director of the Perkins Institution and the Massachusetts School for the Blind, and her mother, Julia Ward Howe, was an author and well-known suffragette. In 1871 she married Henry Richards, and the couple moved to Gardiner, Me., where they had seven children.
Born Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards in Boston, Massachusetts in 1850, Laura grew up in a home filled with creativity. Her parents were writers, too, so it’s no wonder she became a storyteller herself!
The long forgotten American writer, Laura Richards (1850-1943) wrote numerous children's poems that were often classified as nonsense. This was for a reason, since Richards was clearly...
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Shaw and other descendants know Henry and Laura Richards best for their work founding a summer camp on Maine’s Belgrade Lakes. Camp Merryweather operated for nearly 40 years, and its list of notable alumni include Theodore Roosevelt’s sons.
