Laura E. Richards

…the topflight nonsense verses of Laura E. Richards, whose collected rhymes in Tirra Lirra (1932) will almost bear comparison with those of Edward Lear. Less memorable are the works of Lucy Fitch Perkins, Joseph Altsheler, Ralph Henry Barbour, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Eliza Orne White, and the two Burgesses—Thornton and Gelett.…

Laura E. Richards (1850–1943) lived in Gardiner, where she wrote many of her novels, including Captain January (1890). Pop. (2000) 6,198; (2010) 5,800.