THARP Louise Hall (898-1992 3/7/2019 Louise Hall Tharp papers (M37) - DRS Skip to main content Skip to navigation download queue 0 items selected Login DRS Digital Repository Service Homepage Menu Toggle Search Search the DRS Search Northeastern University University Library Library Departments Archives and Special Collections Special Collections Louise Hall Tharp papers (M37) Louise Hall Tharp papers (M37) Collection Search Search this collection Louise Hall Tharp, children's author and historical biographer, was born in 1898 in Oneonta, New York, and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. After attending the Boston School of Fine Arts in 1917-1919, she worked for the Girl Scouts of America in 1925-1934. In 1940, Tharp wrote her first book, Tory Hole. In total, she wrote 17 historical novels for young people and historical biographies for older readers. In 1959, Tharp was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from Northeastern University. http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20260086 Recent Deposits majority here is collected Creator List from MHS, Dedham Histore and View layout preferences Society Brown u areheves, antioch Callage, L.C +NARA List View Grid View Limit your search Creator Martin, Keith 1 Year 1879 1 Subject Transcendentalism (New England) 1 Women 1 Type Image 1 Displaying 1 to 1 of 1 Image Elizabeth Palmer Peabody seated with a fan. Abstract Caption: "Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, taken at one of the sessions of Bronson Alcott's 'Concord School of Philosophy.' From old group photo in Alcott House, Concord, Mass." 5 X 7 inch print located in same folder. 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Subjects Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887 Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894 Tharp, Louise Hall, 1898-1992 Antioch College Education -- History Description The collection contains Louise Hall Tharp's extensive research notes and collected material on Horace Mann (1796-1859), who was the first secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education (1837-1848) and first president of Antioch College (1853-1860), and his wife Mary Peabody. Tharp assembled the material for her book, Until Victory (1953). Included are transcribed letters; Tharp's letters of inquiry and the responses from research agencies, repositories and public offices; notes on newspaper accounts, court records, and municipal registries; newspaper clippings on Mann, Antioch College, and public schools; and pamphlets and booklets on numerous topics related to Mann or his work. The majority of the material is collected from the Massachusetts Society the 3/7/2019 Louise Hall Tharp - Wikipedia Wikipedia Louise Hall Tharp Louise Hall Tharp (born 1898) was an American biographer. Contents Childhood and family Writing Books Biographies Books for children References External links Childhood and family 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 Tharp published four books of historical fiction before she wrote her first biography, Champlain: Northwest Voyager. [2][3] Books Biographies Champlain : northwest voyager, Little Brown,, 1944. Co., 1946. The Peabody Sisters of Salem (Little, Brown and Company: Boston 1950). 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] Mrs. Jack; a biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston, Little, Brown, 1965. 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 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. 1940/76 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 1. "Louise Hall Tharp (profile)" (https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/1336791429/ E6B34A38A2934EF7PQ/1?accountid=10226). New York Herald Tribune. 15 January 1950. Retrieved 21 September 2018. 2. Trent, Nan (1 December 1961). "Louise Hall Tharp Looks Ahead: Attentive To Detail (profile)"(https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/510302273/E6B34A38A2934EF 7PQ/2?accountid=10226). Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 21 September 2018. 3. 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" https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/508360250/ E6B34A38A2934EF7PQ/18?accountid=10226). Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 21 September 2018. 4. Cramer, C. H. "An Excellent Biography." The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 1954, pp. 107-107. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1977878. 5. Taft, Kendall B. "American Literature." American Literature, vol. 30, no. 3, 1958, pp. 382-383.JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2922201. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hall_Tharp 2/3 3/7/2019 Louise Hall Tharp - Wikipedia 6. Brown, Marvin L. "The William and Mary Quarterly." vol. 20, no. 3, 1963, pp. 478-478. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1918972. 7. Dabney, William M. "The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 71, no. 4, 1963, pp. 494-495. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4246982. 8. Stafford, Jean (14 October 1965). "The collector (book review)" (https://www.nybooks. com/articles/1965/10/14/the-collector/): The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 13 October 2018. 9. Crook, David H. "The American Historical Review." The American Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 5, 1970, pp. 1532-1532. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1844615. 10. Pochmann, Henry A. "American Literature." American Literature, vol. 22, no. 3, 1950, pp. 367-368. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2921316, External links The Louise Hall Tharp papers, 1949-1953 (http://www.library.neu.edu/archives/col lect/findaids/m37find.htm) are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? itle=Louise_Hall_Tharp&oldid=875224474' This page was last edited on 24 December 2018, at 18:40 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 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