Background
George was born August 25, 1851, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was physician George Alfred Lathrop and his mother was Frances Maria (Smith) Lathrop, and his brother was Francis Lathrop.
George was born August 25, 1851, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was physician George Alfred Lathrop and his mother was Frances Maria (Smith) Lathrop, and his brother was Francis Lathrop.
George was educated in New York City and Dresden, Germany, when he returned to New York, and decided on a literary career.
He worked on several books for Roberts Brothers, including Afterglow (1877) and Somebody Else (1878), and he edited A Masque of Poets as part of their "Number Name" series. In 1879 George purchased Rose"s former house, called the "The Wayside", in Concord, Massachusetts, and resided there until 1883, when he moved to New York City. His contributions to the periodical and daily press were varied and voluminous.
In 1883 he founded the American Copyright League, which assisted in securing an international copyright law.
George was also one of the founders of the Catholic Summer School of America. Among his published works are: Rose and Roof-tree (1875), poems.
A Study of Hawthorne (1876). Afterglow (1876), a novel.
Somebody Else (1878).
An Echo of Passion (1882). Spanish Vistas (1883), a work on traveling Newport (1884), a novel.
In the Distance (1885).
Dreams and Days (1892), poems. A Story of Courage (1894), centenary history of the Visitation Convent, Georgetown, District of Columbia He edited (1883) a complete, and the standard, edition of Rose"s works, and adapted The Scarlet Letter for Walter Damrosch"s opera of that title, which was produced at New York in 1896.
George died on April 19, 1898, in New New York
Married Rose Hawthorne, September 11, 1871.