Louise Hall Tharp

Louise Hall Tharp (born 1898) was an American biographer.

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]

Tharp published four books of historical fiction before she wrote her first biography, Champlain: Northwest Voyager.^[2]^[3]

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).
Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953).
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.
Mrs. Jack; a biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston, Little, Brown, 1965.
Saint-Gaudens and the gilded era, Little, Brown, 1969.^[4]
The Appletons of Beacon Hill, Little, Brown and Company, 1973.

Down to the sea; a young people's life of Nathaniel Bowditch, the great American navigator, R.M. McBride and Company, 1942.

1 2 3 "Louise Hall Tharp (profile)". New York Herald Tribune. 15 January 1950. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
1 2 Trent, Nan (1 December 1961). "Louise Hall Tharp Looks Ahead: Attentive To Detail (profile)". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
↑ 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". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
↑ Stafford, Jean (14 October 1965). "The collector (book review)". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 13 October 2018.

- The Louise Hall Tharp papers, 1949–1953 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.

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