Cornelia Richards

Cornelia Richards (née, Bradley; pen name, Mrs. Manners; 1822-1892) was a 19th-century American writer who was born in Hudson, New York. Writing under the pen name "Mrs. Manners," she authored a variety of books, including At Home and Abroad, Aspiration, an Autobiography, and a memoir of her sister, the writer Alice Bradley Haven. She was married to a magazine editor and poet and had six children. She died in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 69.

Biography

Cornelia Holroyd Bradley was born in Hudson, New York, November 1, 1822. She was the daughter of George and Sarah (Brown) Bradley. Her siblings were George Thomas Bradley and the writer, Alice Bradley Haven.[1]

In 1841, she graduated from the Hampton Literary institute,[2] and the same year, on September 21, married William Carey Richards, a magazine editor, poet and scientific lecturer.[3][2] Their children were William (b. 1842), Herbert (b. 1849), Mabel (b. 1856), Cornelia (b. 1858), Harold (b. 1860), and Cecil (b. 1864).[4][1]

Richards wrote under the pen name of "Mrs. Manners". She was the author of: At Home and Abroad, or How to Behave (1853); Pleasure and Profit, or Lessons on the Lord's Prayer (1853); Aspiration, an Autobiography (1856); Sedgemoor, or Home Lessons (1857); Hester and I, or Beware of Worldliness (1860); Springs of Adion (1863); and Cousin Alice (1865), a memoir of her sister, Alice B. Haven (1871).[2][5]

She died in Detroit, Michigan, May 1, 1892.[2]

Selected works

At home and abroad
  • At Home and Abroad: Or, How to Behave, 1853 (text)
  • Pleasure and Profit, Or, Lessons on the Lord's Prayer: In a Series of Stories, 1853 (text)
  • Aspiration: An Autobiography of Girlhood, 1856 (text)
  • Sedgemoor, or Home Lessons, 1857 (text)
  • Hester and I; Or, Beware of Worldliness, Etc. (With Plates.), 1860 (text)
  • Springs of Adion, 1863
  • Cousin Alice: A Memoir of Alice B. Haven, 1865 (text)

References

  1. ^ a b "Cornelia Holroyd Bradley Female 1 November 1822 – 1 May 1892". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard (1904). "Richards, Cornelia Holyroyd (Bradley)". The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ... (Public domain ed.). Biographical Society. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  3. ^ Hynds, Ernest C. (1988). "William Carey Richards". In Riley, Sam G. (ed.). American magazine journalists, 1741-1850. Dictionary of literary biography. Vol. 73. Detroit, Michigan: Gale. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-8103-4551-5. OCLC 317597484.
  4. ^ Gorton, Adelos (1907). The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton: The Founders and the Founding of the Republic, a Section of Early United States History and a History of the Colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian Country, Now the State of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687; with a Genealogy of Samuel Gorton's Descendants to the Present Time (Public domain ed.). Higginson Book Company. p. 593. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  5. ^ Brown, John Howard (1903). Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States (Public domain ed.). James H. Lamb Company. p. 465. Retrieved 8 December 2023.

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