Louise Hall Tharp (1898–1992) was an American biographer.
Childhood and family
[edit]She was born in Oneonta, New York, but when she was very young the family moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where her father was vicar of the North Congregational Church.[1] She trained as an artist for two years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, then went with her father on a tour of Europe.[1] She married Carey Hunter Tharp of Huntsville, Texas.[1] The couple had two sons, Carey Edwin, Jr., and Marshall. they lived in Darien, Connecticut.[2]
Writing
[edit]Tharp published four books of historical fiction before she wrote her first biography, Champlain: Northwest Voyager.[2][3]
Books
[edit]Biographies
[edit]- A Sounding Trumpet: Julia Ward Howe and the Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Champlain: Northwest Voyager, Little Brown, 1944.
- Company of adventurers: The Story of the Hudson's Bay Company, Little, Brown and Co., 1946.
- The Peabody Sisters of Salem (Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1950). 1968 pbk reprint. ASIN B003UY3FFA.
- Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953).[4]
- Three Saints and a Sinner: Julia Ward Howe, Louisa, Annie and Sam, Little Brown and Co. 1956[5]
- Adventurous alliance; the story of the Agassiz family of Boston, Little, Brown, 1959.
- Louis Agassiz, adventurous scientist, Little, Brown, 1961.
- The Baroness and the General, Little, Brown and Company, Boston/Toronto, 1962.[6][7]
- Jack.html?id=WAnqAAAAMAAJ Mrs. Jack; a biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston, Little, Brown, 1965. Tharp, Louise Hall (1965). 1984 pbk reprint. P. Weed Books. ISBN 0926637002.
- Saint-Gaudens and the gilded era, Little, Brown, 1969.[8][9]
- The Appletons of Beacon Hill, Little, Brown and Company, 1973.[10]
Books for children
[edit]- Down to the sea; a young people's life of Nathaniel Bowditch, the great American navigator, R.M. McBride and Company, 1942.
- Tory Hole; a young people's account of the Tory attack on Middlesex Parish, CT during the Revolutionary War, Darien Community Assoc., Inc. 1940/1976.
- Sixpence for Luck; a young people's look at colonial life in New London, Ct, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1941
- Champlain: Northwest Voyager; the adventure story of a pioneer of The New World. Peakirk Books, 1946
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Louise Hall Tharp (profile)". New York Herald Tribune. 15 January 1950. ProQuest 1336791429.
- ^ a b Trent, Nan (1 December 1961). "Louise Hall Tharp Looks Ahead: Attentive To Detail (profile)". Christian Science Monitor. ProQuest 510302273.
- ^ Fisher, Barbara E. Scott (5 April 1951). "Sympathetic Research Reveals Biography Patterns for Louise Hall Tharp: Author of 'Peabody Sisters of Salem' Describes Weaving Material Into Book". Christian Science Monitor. ProQuest 508360250.
- ^ Cramer, C. H. "An Excellent Biography". The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 1954, pp. 107–107. JSTOR 1977878.
- ^ Taft, Kendall B. American Literature, vol. 30, no. 3, 1958, pp. 382–383. JSTOR stable/2922201.
- ^ Brown, Marvin L. The William and Mary Quarterly. vol. 20, no. 3, 1963, pp. 478–478. JSTOR 1918972.
- ^ Dabney, William M. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 71, no. 4, 1963, pp. 494–495. JSTOR 4246982.
- ^ Stafford, Jean (14 October 1965). "The collector (book review)". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ Crook, David H. “The American Historical Review.” The American Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 5, 1970, pp. 1532–1532. JSTOR 1844615.
- ^ Pochmann, Henry A. “American Literature.” American Literature, vol. 22, no. 3, 1950, pp. 367–368. JSTOR 2921316.
External links
[edit]- The Louise Hall Tharp papers, 1949–1953 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| People | |
| Other | |
