Louisa Jane Hall (née Park; February 7, 1802 – September 8, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and literary critic.
[4] The father was a physician who had given up his medical practice when she was two, to move to Boston for the purpose of editing the New-England Repertory, a leading political journal of the Federal party.
[3] In a few years, he became weary of the conflict, then waged with so much violence, and, urged to do so by some of the most intelligent citizens, opened the Boston Lyceum for Young Ladies, in which a more thorough education might be received than was common in that period.
He had already made her familiar with Milton and Shakespeare; and it was partly with the view of executing his plans for her education that he decided to become a public teacher.
[4] Her writings show that her mind was wisely as well as carefully disciplined, and probably her habits of composition were formed at an early period.
[4][3] In 1831, her father retired to Worcester, Massachusetts, carrying with him a library of some 3,000 volumes, containing many valuable works in Latin, French, and Italian.
[3] Samuel Austin Allibone said that few American poetical compositions were more highly commended than "Miriam", Hall's finest work, which was written in 1826.
Hall, a Unitarian minister[5] of Providence, Rhode Island, where she was occupied with domestic affairs, and in the duties which grew out of her relation to her husband's society, to bestow much further attention upon literature.