Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1851–1926) was the youngest child of Nathaniel Hawthorne. She married the poet George Parsons Lathrop in 1871 and published verse (Along the Shore, 1888) and prose before turning to charity.

After her husband’s death she became a nurse to the poor dying of cancer, and as Mother Mary Alphonsa founded the Dominican Congregation of St. Rose of Lima (the Hawthorne Dominicans).