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Hale, Lucretia Peabody

author, was born Sept. 2, 1820, in Boston, Mass.

She is a writer who is best known by her humorous juvenile books; and is the author of The Peterkin Papers: The Last of the Peterkins. Her other works comprise The Lord's Supper and Its Observance; The Service of Sorrow; Sunday- School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the Fireside, a collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; Art Needle Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton; and The New Harry and Lucy.

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