Cornelia Richards

Cornelia Richards (née, Bradley; pen name, Mrs. Manners; 1822-1892) was a 19th-century American writer.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

In 1841, she graduated from the Hampton Literary institute.^[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).^[1]

On September 21, 1841, she married Rev. William Carey Richards (1818-1892), author, poet, and scientific lecturer.^[1] Their children were William (b. 1842), Herbert (b. 1849), Mabel (b. 1856), Cornelia (b. 1858), Harold (b. 1860), and Cecil (b. 1864).^[4][3]

Cornelia Holroyd Bradley Richards died in Detroit, Michigan, May 1, 1892.^[1]

Selected works

• 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. Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard (1904). "Richards, Cornelia Holyroyd (Bradley)". The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ... Biographical Soceity. Retrieved 8 December 2023.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. Brown, John Howard (1903). Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States. James H. Lamb Company. p. 465. Retrieved 8 December 2023.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. "Cornelia Holroyd Bradley Female 1 November 1822 – 1 May 1892". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
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. Higginson Book Company. p. 593. Retrieved 8 December 2023.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.