biography
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Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne (Mother Alphonse)
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pronunciation:
[laythrop]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1851–1926)
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| biography:
| Catholic nun, born in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA. The daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, she was raised and educated abroad, married George Parsons Lathrop (1871) and with him converted to Catholicism (1891); they later separated. After his death (1898) she became a Dominican nun and founded a home for terminally ill cancer patients (eventually moved to Hawthorne, NY) and a community of nuns devoted to their care. She wrote poems and other works, including (with her husband) Memories of Hawthorne (1897). |
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