Her father, Nathan Hale, was the owner and publisher of the Boston Daily Advertiser and nephew and namesake of the Revolutionary War hero. Hale was born on September 2, 1820, in Boston, Massachusetts. Writing during the somber Victorian era, Hale is credited as being one of the first American authors to write silly and inconsequential stories solely for children's entertainment. Nicholas, two children's periodicals of the era, and were collected and published in book form as The Peterkin Papers (1880) and The Last of the Peterkins, with Others of Their Kin (1886). The Peterkin short stories were published individually in Our Young Folks and St. INTRODUCTIONĪ member of one of Boston's most influential and intellectual families of the nineteenth century, Hale become internationally recognized for her amusing and light-hearted stories of the mishaps and misadventures of the fictional Peterkin family. The following entry presents an overview of Hale's career through 2003. American novelist and author of short stories for children.
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