Synopsis
The book ""Letters of Susan Hale"" is a collection of letters written by Susan Hale, a 19th-century American writer, to her family and friends. The letters, compiled and edited by Caroline P. Atkinson, offer a fascinating glimpse into the life and times of a woman living in the mid-1800s. Susan Hale was the sister of famous American author Edward Everett Hale, and her letters reveal a keen intellect, a deep love of literature, and a strong sense of social justice. She wrote about a variety of topics, including her travels in Europe, her family life, her work as a teacher, and her thoughts on politics and religion. The letters are written in a lively and engaging style, and they provide a vivid portrait of life in the 19th century. Atkinson's introduction to the book provides valuable context and background information on Susan Hale and her family. Overall, ""Letters of Susan Hale"" is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of American literature and culture.1918. The correspondence of Susan Hale, the youngest of eight born into a prominent literary family of Boston. Her father, Nathan Hale, nephew of the revolutionary war hero of the same name, was editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Her mother, Sarah Preston Everett, was a sister of the orator, Edward Everett. Her brother, Edward Everett Hale, the writer of the introduction to this volume, was a leading Unitarian minister, a leader in the Social Gospel movement, and author of numerous articles, sermons, pamphlets, and short stories, most prominent of which was The Man Without a Country, written for The Atlantic Monthly to inspire greater patriotism during the Civil War. In her lifetime, Susan was a teacher, an art student, a lecturer and public reader, an amateur actress, an avid traveler, and the manager of the family household in Matunuck, Rhode Island. She traveled extensively in Egypt, the Holy Land, all over Europe, throughout the West Indies, Mexico, and across the American continent. She was a prolific letter writer and, as one of her admirers wrote, her letters constitute an intimate narrative of the life, activities and thoughts of a cultivated American woman of the highest and best type during an interesting period. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Présentation de l'éditeur
Susan Hale intimately, have felt eager to have her letters published, in order that a larger number of persons might share with us the delight of her wit and vivacity, and her never-ceasing good spirits. She was the best of company, and we who sat on her piazza at Matunuck, listening to her brilliant conversation on men, books and travel, or to her inimitable stories; and others who had the good fortune to travel with her, all bear witness to never having spent a dull hour in her company. It was a liberal education to be with her, for she always inspired the young people about her to care for the best things. She read a great deal, and in addition to a fine library of old books, she kept up with the best new ones, and her tables were always liberally strewn with current literature in English, French, Italian and German all of which she read in the original, being a fine linguist, and discussed in a most discerning and appreciative way. She loved tlie great outdoors, and used to put on a short skirt, arrange her hair in a pig-tail, don a tam-o -shanter, and lead the young people off over hills, through woods, and along the shores of the ponds, stopping to pick wild flowers by the way, and often bringing a specimen home to dissect and analyze with the help of Ghray sB
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