Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop(1851-1926),daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American Roman Catholic religious sister and social worker.

She married author George Parsons Lathrop in 1871. They both converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891. They later separated.

She was known for her service near and within New York City, caring for impoverished cancer patients by founding St. Rose's Free Home for Incurable Cancer in the Lower East Side. After the death of her husband in 1898, she became a nun, and as Mother Mary Alphonsa, she founded a community of Dominican religious, now known as the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. They still operate in New York state.

See Also

• Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Salem Women's History site by Bonnie Hurd Smith

• "Hawthorne daughter famous in her own right for work with impoverished patients with cancer"

Salem News, Dec. 13, 2010, p. 4

• To myself a stranger: a biography or Rose Hawthorne by Patricia D. Dunlavy