The Silver Crown

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850-1943) was born in Boston Massachusetts to a high-profile family. During her life she wrote over 90 books including children's biographies poetry and others. A well-known children's poem for which she is noted is the literary nonsense verse Eletelephony. In 1917 she won a Pulitzer Prize for The Life of Julia Ward Howe a biography which she coauthored with her sister Maud Howe Elliott. Among her most famous works are: Queen Hildegarde (1889) Captain January (1890) Melody (1893) Marie (1894) Hildegarde's Neighbors (1895) Nautilus (1895) Three Margarets (1897) Geoffrey Strong (1901) The Green Satin Gown (1903) and The Silver Crown: Another Book of Fables (1906).