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Laura E. Richards Biography

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Laura E. Richards was an American writer known for her children's literature. Her works were highly appreciated by children and won multiple awards. She was born on February 27, 1850, and passed away on January 14, 1943.

Mean Use Certain Fun Dear Elephants Telephones Just For Fun Dear Me

Author:Laura E. Richards

“read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never seen it. Such a monstrosity should be put alongside of the Rhyming Bible, of which, I believe, only one copy is in existence.”

Should Believe Children Enough I Believe Existence Bible Versions Copies Nursery Syllables Rhyming Monstrosity

Author:Laura E. Richards

“Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!”

Giving Children Book Reading Brain Bed Good Book Simplification Standardization

Author:Laura E. Richards

“I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.”

Want Needs Believe Children

Author:Laura E. Richards

“You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.”

Ifs Death Poor Doors Week Description Nails Lively Julius

Author:Laura E. Richards

“I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.”

Kind Felt Honest Eating Folks Buttons Old Fashioned Wags

Author:Laura E. Richards

“I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.”

Has Beens Poetry Dinner

Author:Laura E. Richards

“We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.”

Knows May Whole Joy Sorrow Towns Neighbor Cake Layers Small Town Filling Lemons

Author:Laura E. Richards

“To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?”

“And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world.”

Ifs World Ends Used Loss Cities Sea Rocks Bounds Storm Disaster End Of The World Jersey Jersey City

Author:Laura E. Richards

About the Author

Born: February 27, 1850
Died: January 14, 1943
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 10

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