George Parsons Lathrop

George Parsons Lathrop was an American poet and novelist. George Parsons Lathrop was born August 25, 1851 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was physician George Alfred Lathrop, mother was Frances Maria Lathrop, and brother Francis Lathrop. He was educated at New York and Dresden, Germany, when he returned to New York, and decided on a literary career. Going to England on a visit he was married in London, September 11, 1871, to Rose Hawthorne, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In 1875 he became associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and remained in that position two years, leaving it for... newspaper work in Boston and New York. His contributions to the periodical and daily Press were varied and voluminous. In 1883 he founded the American Copyright League, which finally secured the international copyright law. Lathrop was also one of the founders of the Catholic Summer School of America. He and his wife were received into the Roman Catholic Church in New York in March 1891.
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