Cornelia Richards (née, Bradley; pen name, Mrs.
[1][2] Cornelia Holroyd Bradley was born in Hudson, New York, November 1, 1822.
She was the daughter of George and Sarah (Brown) Bradley.
[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.
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.