Susan Hale

Susan Hale (December 5, 1833 – September 17, 1910) author and artist born in Boston, Massachusetts to Nathan Hale and Sarah Preston Everett who had a total of eleven children. Susan'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.

In 1872 Susan studied art in Paris, France and Weimar, Germany for nearly a year. When she returned she began giving lessons in watercolors. She lived and maintained a studio in the Art Club on Boylston Street in Boston. In 1885 she published "Self-Instructive Lessons in Painting with Oil and Water-Colors".

Published works

* "Self-Instructive Lessons in Painting with Oil and Water-Colors on Silk, Satin, Velvet, and Other Fabrics Including Lustra Painting and the Use of Other Mediums." 1885

* "Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century." 1898

* "Addison and Gay." 1898

* "Young Americans in Spain." 1899

* "Letters of Susan Hale." 1919

* "Nonsense Book; A Collection of Limericks." 1919

* "Inklings for Thinklings." 1919

References

* "Hale, Susan." "American Authors 1600 – 1900." H. W. Wilson Company, NY 1938.
* Ingebritsen, Shirley Phillips. "Hale, Susan" "Notable American Women." Vol. 2, 4th ed., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975
* [http://www.readseries.com/auth-dm/shalebio-eh.html readseries.com] Accessed July 10, 2007
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/h/susan_hale/susan_hale.aspx askart.com] Accessed July 10, 2007

External links

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