Peterkins, The
About the Story
Author Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820-1900) was born in Boston, MA, and was one of eleven children. Hale’s father, Nathan Hale, was a lawyer as well as the editor and owner of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Hale’s brother, Edward Everett Hale, and her mother, Sarah Preston Everett, were authors as well. Lucretia Hale published two novels in addition to several stories in magazines and newspapers. Hale is best-known for her children’s novels: The Peterkin Papers and The Last of the Peterkins with Others of Their Kin (1886). The first Peterkin stories were published in 1867 in the magazine, Our Young Folks. The Peterkin stories were collected and published as The Peterkin Papers in 1880.
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