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Laura E. Richards

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Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 – January 14, 1943) was an American writer. [1]

25 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Associated Press, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Beauty and the Beast, Biography, Boston, Captain January (novel), Collaborative writing, Florence Hall (Pulitzer Prize winner), Gardiner, Maine, Hop-o'-My-Thumb, Julia Ward Howe, Laura Bridgman, Laura Richards House, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, Literary nonsense, Maud Howe Elliott, Paper mill, Perkins School for the Blind, Poetry, Samuel Gridley Howe, Shirley Temple, St. Nicholas Magazine, The New York Times, 1917 Pulitzer Prize.

Abolitionism in the United States

Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Battle Hymn of the Republic

The "Battle Hymn of the Republic," also known as "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," outside of the United States, is a lyric by the American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body." Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861, and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862.

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins (The Young American and Marine Tales).

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Captain January (novel)

Captain January is an 1891 children's novel, written by Laura E. Richards, and later transformed into two films, the 1924 silent film Captain January, starring Baby Peggy and the 1936 musical film Captain January, starring Shirley Temple.

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Collaborative writing

The term collaborative writing refers to projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually.

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Florence Hall (Pulitzer Prize winner)

Florence Howe Hall (1845–1922) was an American writer, critic, and lecturer about women's suffrage in the United States.

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Gardiner, Maine

Gardiner is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States.

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Hop-o'-My-Thumb

Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Hop-on-My-Thumb), or Hop o' My Thumb, also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet (Le petit Poucet), is one of the eight fairytales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), now world-renowned.

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Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was an American poet and author, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." She was also an advocate for abolitionism and was a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage.

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Laura Bridgman

Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) is known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller.

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Laura Richards House

The Laura Richards House is a historic house at 3 Dennis Street in Gardiner, Maine.

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Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was an American literary award conferred on several books annually by the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education annually from 1958 to 1979.

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Literary nonsense

Literary nonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning.

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Maud Howe Elliott

Maud Howe Elliott (November 9, 1854 – March 19, 1948) was an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sisters, Laura E. Richards and Florence Hall, on their mother's biography (1916).

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Paper mill

A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients.

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Perkins School for the Blind

Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, Massachusetts, is the oldest school for the blind in the United States.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Samuel Gridley Howe

Samuel Gridley Howe (November 10, 1801 – January 9, 1876) was a nineteenth century United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind.

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Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple BlackWhile Temple occasionally used "Jane" as a middle name, her birth certificate reads "Shirley Temple".

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St. Nicholas Magazine

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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1917 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prizes were first presented in 1917.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_E._Richards

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