![]() ![]() Her home in Gardiner, the Laura Richards House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Her children's book Tirra Lirra won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959. In 1917 Laura won a Pulitzer Prize for Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, a biography, which she co-authored with her sisters, Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall.Ī pre-kindergarten to second grade elementary school in Gardiner, Maine bears her name. He would accept a management position in 1876 at his family's paper mill at Gardiner, Maine, where the couple moved with their three children. Her mother Julia Ward Howe wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". ![]() She was named after his famous deaf-blind pupil Laura Bridgman. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. ![]() Laura Elizabeth Howe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1850. ![]()
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