Lucretia Peabody Hale (September 2, 1820 – June 12, 1900) was an American journalist and author.

Biography

Hale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at

George B. Emerson George Barrell Emerson (September 12, 1797 – March 14, 1881) was an American educator and pioneer of women's education. Biography He was born in Kennebunk, Maine. He graduated from Harvard College in 1817, and soon after took charge of an acad ...

's school there. Subsequently she devoted herself to literature, and was a member of the

Boston School Committee Boston Public Schools (BPS) is a school district serving the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest public school district in the state of Massachusetts. Leadership The district is led by a Superintendent, hired by the ...

for two years.

Principal works

Hale published numerous stories in periodicals and newspapers, some of which were collected in books.

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, a Story of Home'', 1861 *''The Lord's Supper and its Observance'', 1866 *''The Service of Sorrow'', 1867

Miscellaneous

*''Designs in Outline for Art-Needlework'', 1879 *''Fagots for the Fireside'', 1888

Family

Hale's parents were

Nathan Hale Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American Patriot, soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured b ...

and

Sarah Preston Everett Sarah Preston Everett Hale (5 September 1796 – 14 November 1866) was an American diarist, translator, columnist and newspaper publisher. Biography Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1796 Sarah Preston Everett was the daughter of the Reverend O ...

, who had a total of eleven children. Nathan Hale, nephew and namesake of the

the American patriot hero, was a lawyer and editor/owner of the ''

Boston Daily Advertiser The ''Boston Daily Advertiser'' (est. 1813) was the first daily newspaper in Boston, and for many years the only daily paper in Boston. History The ''Advertiser'' was established in 1813, and in March 1814 it was purchased by journalist Nathan ...

'', while her mother, also an author, was a sister of

Edward Everett Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig, served as U.S. representative, U.S. senator, the 15th governor of Mass ...

, a Unitarian minister and politician. Lucretia's brother,

Edward Everett Hale Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as " The Man Without a Country", published in '' Atlantic Monthly'', in support of the Union ...

, was also a Unitarian minister as well as a prolific author in his own right.

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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dorchesteratheneum.org

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