Rose and roof-tree: poems in Bloomington, MN

George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898) was a poet, novelist and brother of Francis Lathrop. He was educated at New York and Dresden, Germany. He was married in London, 11 September 1871, to Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In 1875 he became associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and remained in that position two years, leaving it for newspaper work in Boston and New York. His contributions to the periodical and daily Press were varied and voluminous. In 1883 he founded the American Copyright League, which finally secured the international copyright law. He was also one of the founders of the Catholic Summer School of America. Among his famous works are: Rose and Roof-Tree (1875), A Study of Hawthorne (1876), Afterglow (1876), Spanish Vistas (1883), and Dreams and Days (1892). He also edited a complete, and the standard, edition of Hawthorne's works, and adapted The Scarlet Letter for Walter Damrosch's opera of that title, which was produced at New York in 1896.