“Mother-love is the greatest blessing and the greatest peril in life.”
About William Ellery Leonard
25 January 1876–2 May 1944
On January 25, 1876, in the quiet town of Plainfield, New Jersey, William Ellery Channing Leonard was born into a world of literary aspiration and transcendentalist idealism. His parents, fervent admirers of the New England intellectual tradition, named their only child after William Ellery Channing, the Unitarian…