The Last of the Peterkins: With Others of Their Kin

The Peterkins

by Lucretia P. Hale

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Genres: Literature, Fiction

150 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1880

About the author

Lucretia Peabody Hale, sister of Edward Everett Hale wrote two noted books, The Peterkin Papers (1880) and The Last of the Peterkins (1886), for children.

After attending school, this United States journalist and author, a member of the Boston school committee for two years, devoted to literature.

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

Parents reared Lucretia Peabody Hale with her ten siblings. Nathan Hale, nephew and namesake of the patriot hero, a lawyer, edited and owned the Boston Daily Advertiser while her mother, also an author, was a sister of Edward Everett, a Unitarian minister and politician.