Lucretia Peabody Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale (2 September 1820 – 12 June 1900) was a United States journalist and author.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Principal Works 3 Family 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Hale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at George B. Emerson's school there. Subsequently she devoted herself to literature, and was a member of the Boston School Committee 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
• Faggots for the Fireside, 1888

Family

Hale's parents were Nathan Hale and Sarah Preston Everett, who had a total of eleven children. Nathan Hale, nephew and namesake of the Nathan Hale 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.

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
•  "Hale, John". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1892. 

External links

• WorldCat
• Works by Lucretia Peabody Hale at Project Gutenberg
• dorchesteratheneum.org
• Ten Lucretia Peabody Hale stories are read in Mister Ron's Basement Podcast, now indexed.

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Name	Hale, Lucretia Peabody
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Date of birth	2 September 1820
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Date of death	12 June 1900
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