Lucretia Peabody Hale (2 September 1820-12 June 1900) American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Nathan Hale and Sarah Preston Everett who had a total of eleven children. Lucretia's father, Nathan Hale, nephew and namesake of the patriot hero, was a lawyer and editor/owner of the Boston Daily Advertiser while her mother, also an author, was a sister of Edward Everett, a Unitarian minister and politician. Lucretia's brother, Edward Everett Hale, was also a Unitarian minister as well as a prolific author in his own right. Novels: Juvenile writings: Books of Devotion: Miscellaneous: "Hale, Lucretia Peabody" American Authors 1600-1900, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1938 "HALE, Lucretia Peabody" Notable American Women, Vol. 2, 4th ed., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975