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Mother Mary Alphonsa (May 20, 1851 – July 9, 1926) was an American Roman Catholic religious sister and social worker. ==Biography== Mother Alphonsa was born on May 20, 1851 to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia, and baptised as Rose Hawthorne.〔Valenti, 1〕 Sophia was assisted in the birth by her grandfather, Dr. Nathaniel Peabody.〔Mellow, 363〕 Hawthorne wrote about it to his friend, Horatio Bridge, comparing her to a book: "Mrs. Hawthorne published a little work, two months ago, which still lies in sheets; but, I assure you, it makes some noise in the world, both by day and night. In plain English, we have another little red-headed daughter—a very bright, strong, and healthy imp, but, at present, with no pretentions to beauty."〔McFarland, 130〕 On July 28, 1851, Sophia took Rose and her older sister, Una, to visit relatives in West Newton, Massachusetts.〔Mellow, 375〕 Growing up, Rose lived in Massachusetts, Liverpool, London, Paris, Rome, and Florence. The family returned to Concord, Massachusetts in 1860. There, her older brother, Julian, was enrolled in a school run by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Though their friend, Ellery Channing, recommended the Hawthorne girls attend the same school, neither Una nor Rose were enrolled, despite it being coeducational. Sophia wrote, "We entirely disapprove of this commingling of youths and maidens at the electric age in school. I find no end of ill effect from it, and this is why I do not send Una and Rose to your school."〔Mellow, 537〕 Two years after Nathaniel's death in 1864, Rose was enrolled at a boarding school run by Diocletian Lewis in nearby Lexington, Massachusetts, though she disliked the experience.〔Valenti, 34〕 Later, the family moved to Germany, then England. Sophia and Una died there in 1871 and 1877, respectively. Rose married author George Parsons Lathrop in 1871. In 1876, they had a son, Francis, who died of diphtheria at the age of five. In the spring of 1879, her family's former home in Concord, The Wayside, became available for purchase and, with borrowed money, the Lathrops bought it. The day of Francis' death, however, they moved out.〔Valenti, 63–64〕 They returned to New York City but, in 1887, moved to New London, Connecticut for George's health.〔Valenti, 96〕 There, they became involved with the Catholic summer school movement and collaborated on a book, ''A Story of Courage: A History of the Georgetown Visitation Convent''.〔Connor, 51〕 Rose tried to become an author, like her father, in her own right and published a book of poems, ''Along the Shore'', in 1888. Both she and George converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 but he became an alcoholic and increasingly unstable after Francis' death.〔Allitt, 143〕 Una suspected abuse.〔Wineapple, 4〕 George also competed with Rose's brother, Julian, for control of Nathaniel's legacy.〔Smith and Himmel, 21〕 In 1883, Julian planned to published ''Dr. Grimshawe's Secret'', an unpublished manuscript left unfinished by their father, but Rose did not believe in its existence and suspected him of forgery or perpetrating a hoax.〔Valenti, 67〕 After Francis' death, Rose and Julian tried to end their quarreling and the Lathrops visited him in England in 1881. During that trip, however, they spent more and more time apart.〔Valenti, 66–67〕 They separated permanently in 1895; George died of cirrhosis three years later. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mother Mary Alphonsa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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