Rosalys Hall


Rosalys Haskell Hall was an American author of children’s books.
Hall was seven times descended from Roger Williams and the great-grand niece of Maud Howe Elliott. She attended Ecole Sevigne, in Paris, France, New Jersey College for Women, and Ethical Culture Norman Training School.
Hall was a seller of children's books in New York at Doubleday Bookshop, from 1938-1944; and at Longman's, Green & Co. she worked as editor in Children's Book Department beginning in 1944. She was the fourth generation to write books beginning with Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". She was the published author of seventeen children's books. Several of her books were illustrated by Kurt Werth.
A great animal lover, Hall was known throughout Newport as a dog-walker.

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