Lucretia Peabody Hale was a United States journalist and author.

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
  The Peterkin Papers
  The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work.The first of the Peterkin stories appeared in 1867 in a magazine named Our Young Folks, later named St...
  
  , 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

Nathan Hale (journalist)

Nathan Hale was an American journalist and newspaper publisher who introduced regular editorial comment as a newspaper feature.-Life and career:...

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

Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British...

 the patriot hero, was a lawyer and editor/owner of the Boston Daily Advertiser

Boston Daily Advertiser

The Boston Daily Advertiser was the first daily newspaper in Boston, and for many years the only daily paper in Boston.-History:...

while her mother, also an author, was a sister of Edward Everett

Edward Everett

Edward Everett was an American politician and educator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State...

, a Unitarian minister and politician. Lucretia's brother, Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. He was a child prodigy who exhibited extraordinary literary skills and at age thirteen was enrolled at Harvard University where he graduated second in his class...

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

External links

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