Hale, Lucretia Peabody
Hale, Lucretia Peabody( 1820–1900),sister of Edward Everett Hale, was educated at Elizabeth Peabody's school and, like other members of her large family and of her coterie in Boston, she became interested in social work, feminism, and education. Although she began writing fiction for the Atlantic in 1858 and collaborated with her brother Edward on a novel, Struggle for Life (1861), and with him and others on another novel, Six of One by Half a Dozen of the Other (1872), it was not until she collected The Peterkin Papers (1880) that she established a wide reputation. This sprightly satire on the culture of Boston bent on self-improvement in which the ingenuousness of other characters is always offset by the commonsensical Lady from Philadelphia was continued in later sketches, The Last of the Peterkins (1886). In addition to her literary activities, Miss Hale was one of the first two women members of the...
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