page_title: Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Identifier: centuryillustratv43n2newy (find matches) Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine Year: 1882 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: American literature Publisher: New York&#160;: Century Co. Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Miss Dickens THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF CHARLES DICKENS MISS MAMIE DICKENS has, up to this time, been induced to do but littleliterary work. Her first Christmas story, in the Christmas LadiesHome Journal, shows, however, that the genius of Dickens is inherited by hiseldest daughter, and in her first magazine article for the Famous Daughters*issue of the Journal, she will show this even more conclusively. MissDickens has written a reminiscent article telling What My Father TaughtUs, in which she outlines the methods adopted by Dickens in the educationof his children, the precepts he held up before them, the prayer he composedand taught them, giving a glimpse of Dickenss domestic life which will beread with interest by every lover of his works and personality. Later in theyear Miss Dickens will begin, in the Journal, her series of the inner life ofher father, under the attractive title of My Father as I Recall Him. Text Appearing After Image: THE DAUGHTER OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE M Mrs. Lathrop RS. ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP is another of Americas famousdaughters who has demonstrated the truth that literary genius ishereditary. Mrs. Lathrop has been equally successful in prose, poetry andfiction. It is perhaps in her stories that Mrs. Lathrop excels, and thusthe readers of the Journal will be able to judge her at her best in the storyof The Love of an American Girl, which she has written for the forth-coming special issue. It is a tale in direct contradiction to the prevailingmarriages of American girls and foreign titles—a story shifting in scenesfrom the quiet of an American rural community to the diplomatic surround-ings of the American legation at London. Mrs. Lathrops story will openthe Journals special number. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne are a Roman Catholic congregation of religious sisters, who are a part of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. The Congregation was founded on December 8, 1900, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, a daughter of the famed novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. They specialize in caring for those suffering from terminal cancer and have no financial resources.
context_section_description: Early in life, Rose Hawthorne married George Parsons Lathrop, both of whom converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891. Rose had seemingly married well as a young woman, and they moved from her native Massachusetts to New York City and then to Connecticut after their marriage. Her husband soon turned out to be unreliable and difficult. Eventually she was driven in 1895 to seek permission from the Church to live apart from him, and this was granted.
  Finding herself alone and with few financial resources, she began to seek some meaning to her life. She learned of the plight of the poor who were diagnosed with incurable cancer. At the time, this disease was believed by many to be highly contagious, so there was a deep fear of contact with those suffering from this affliction. Lathrop soon found a special vocation to this work.
  In the fall of 1896, after having taken a three-month nursing course at New York's Cancer Hospital, Lathrop moved into a three-room cold-water flat on New York City's impoverished Lower East Side and began to nurse the poor with incurable cancer. In March 1898 Alice Huber, having responded to an article Lathrop had written about her work, joined her in this service. Shortly afterwards Rose's husband George died. As others came to join them, Lathrop was inspired to found a religious congregation. One of her early supporters was Josephine Lazarus, sister of the poet Emma Lazarus who had been Rose's friend until her death from cancer.
caption: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, also known as Mother Mary Alphonsa, circa 1882
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