Feb 24
4 min read
From Literary Icon’s Daughter to Cancer Care Pioneer
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop: Incurable Compassion
“The work of [Rose] is perhaps known by few in this country where it should be known by all.” Flannery O’Connor, Mission Fulfilled.
Dispirited by a tempestuous marriage, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop had a midlife crisis at 44. She started a new religious order in 1900.
