Laura Curtis Bullard collection, 1981.
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Bullard, Laura Curtis
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Laura Curtis Bullard was born in Freedom, Maine in 1831 to Lucy and Jeremiah Curtis. The family had a business selling the popular Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a morphine-based tonic used for aches and pains. In the early 1850s, Jeremiah moved the successful business and his family to New York City. Laura Curtis Bullard published her first novel, Now-a-days!, by the age of 23. Two years later, in 1856, she published the novel Christine : or, woman's trials and triumphs. She began editing her o...