A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Hooper, Lucy
HOOPER, LUCY,
Was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1816. When she was about fifteen, the death of her father caused the removal of the family to Brooklyn, Long Island. Soon after her arrival in that city she began to write and publish poems, under the initials of L. H. In 1840, she published an "Essay on Domestic Happiness," and a work entitled "Scenes from Real Life." She was engaged in preparing a work entitled "The Poetry of Flowers," during the time of her last sickness: the book was published after her decease, which occurred in August, 1841. The following year one of her friends collected and arranged the "Literary Remains of Miss Hooper," which were published, with an affectionate tribute to her genius and the excellence of her private life. Another biographer remarks: "There have been in our literary history few more interesting characters than Lucy Hooper. She died at an early age, but not until her acquaintances had seen developed in her a nature that was all truth and gentleness, nor until the world had recognised in her writings the signs of a rare and delicate genius, that wrought in modesty, but in repose, in the garden of the affections and in the light of religion."