biography
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Hale, Edward Everett
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| male
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| lived:
| (1822–1909)
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| biography:
| Unitarian clergyman and writer, born in Roxbury (now part of Boston), Massachusetts, USA. He started on his father's newspaper, the Boston Daily Advertiser, and produced numerous essays, short stories, pamphlets, and novels throughout his life. He became a minister in Roxbury in 1846. He is best remembered for his story ‘The Man Without a Country’ (1863), which encouraged patriotism during the Civil War. His most popular novels were In His Name (1873) and East and West (1892). A proponent of the Social Gospel movement, his other works include Ten Times One is Ten (1871) which inspired the ‘Lend a Hand’ clubs. |
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