Louise Hall Tharp
Louise Hall Tharp (1898โ1992) was an American biographer.
Childhood and family
She was born in
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
- 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. 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
- 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
- ^ ProQuest 1336791429.
- ^ ProQuest 510302273.
- ProQuest 508360250.
- ^
Cramer, C. H. "An Excellent Biography". The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 1954, pp. 107โ107. JSTOR 1977878.
- JSTOR stable/2922201.
- JSTOR 1918972.
- JSTOR 4246982.
- ^ Stafford, Jean (14 October 1965). "The collector (book review)". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- JSTOR 1844615.
- JSTOR 2921316.
External links
- The Louise Hall Tharp papers, 1949โ1953 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.
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