Susan Hale | |
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 Susan Hale, ca. 1865 | |
| Born | December 5, 1833 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | September 17, 1910 (aged 76) Matunuck, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, artist |
| Relatives | Nathan Hale (father) Edward Everett Hale (brother) Lucretia Peabody Hale (sister) Charles Hale (brother) Edward Everett (maternal uncle) Nathan Hale (granduncle) |
Susan Hale (December 5, 1833 – September 17, 1910) was an American author, traveler and artist. She was a prolific writer as well as a famous watercolor painter, art which she studied under English, French and German masters. Hale traveled extensively and visited the art galleries of the world, leading to many writings, paintings and sketches of the places she visited. She was associated with her brother, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, in the publication of The Family Flight series, which included the several countries she had visited. She also exhibited her paintings of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, of North Carolina scenery and of foreign scenes, in New York City and Boston. She edited Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton (1885), and contributed numerous articles to periodicals.[1]
- ^ Johnson & Brown 1904, p. 14.