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] and the same year, on September 21, married William Carey Richards, a magazine editor, poet and scientific lecturer.^[4][1] Their children were William (b. 1842), Herbert (b. 1849), Mabel (b. 1856), Cornelia (b. 1858), Harold (b. 1860), and Cecil (b. 1864).^[5][3]

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]

She 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)