His first notable story was 'My Double and How He Undid Me' (1859), full of autobiographical detail and humorous anecdote. Meanwhile, he was still producing articles for such esteemed publications as Atlantic Monthly. The Hales moved to Boston in 1856, where Hale served as pastor with the South Congregational Church (until 1899). In 1852 Hale married the niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Baldwin Perkins (1829-1914), with whom he had eight children.

He was ordained in 1846 and became a minister for the Congregationalist Church of the Unity in Worcester, Massachusetts (until 1856). Not quite satisfied with fiction and turning to a more didactic approach, he expressed his social conscience through his journalistic skills in writing tracts on various issues as anti-slavery and public education reform. Hale was soon well-acquainted with many literary figures of the day including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes. His first story 'A Tale of a Salamander' was published in 1842. He was also putting pen to paper and writing essays and short stories. After that, while studying theology and preparing to enter the ministry, he held various teaching positions. He then went on to teach at the Boston Latin School for two years, before becoming a journalist for his father's Daily Advertiser for a few years. At the age of thirteen he entered Harvard College, graduating second in his class of 1839. The son of Nathan Hale (1784-1863), journalist, proprietor, and Editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and his wife Sarah Preston Everett. I am as grieved to hear of his death as I can ever be to hear of the death of any friend, though my grief is always tempered with the satisfaction of knowing that for him the hard, bitter struggle of life is ended.'Įdward Everett Hale was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 April 1822. 'I had the greatest esteem and respect for Edward Everett Hale, and the greatest admiration for his work.

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