Lucretia Peabody Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale (2 September, 1820-12 June, 1900) American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Nathan Hale and Sarah Preston Everett who had a total of eleven children. Lucretia's father, Nathan Hale, nephew and namesake of the patriot hero, was a lawyer and editor/owner of the "Boston Daily Advertiser" while her mother, also an author, was a sister of Edward Everett, a Unitarian minister and politician. Lucretia's brother, Edward Everett Hale, was also a Unitarian minister as well as a prolific author in his own right.

Principal Works

Novels:
*"Six of One by Half a Dozen of the Other", 1872
*"The Wolf at the Door", 1877

Juvenile writings:
*"The Peterkin Papers", 1880
*"The Last of the Peterkins with Others of Their Kin", 1886

Books of Devotion:
*"The Struggle for Life", 1861
*"The Service of Sorrow", 1867

Miscellaneous:
*"Designs in Outline for Art-Needlework", 1879
*"Faggots for the Fireside", 1888

References

"Hale, Lucretia Peabody" American Authors 1600-1900, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1938

"HALE, Lucretia Peabody" "Notable American Women", Vol. 2, 4th ed., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975

External links

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* [http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/page.php?id=225 dorchesteratheneum.org]


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