Lucretia Peabody Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale, ca.1850s

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

• 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.