Down to the sea a young people's life of Nathaniel Bowditch, the great American navigator, R.M.The Appletons of Beacon Hill, Little, Brown and Company, 1973.Saint-Gaudens and the gilded era, Little, Brown, 1969.Jack a biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston, Little, Brown, 1965. The Baroness and the General, Little, Brown and Company, Boston/Toronto, 1962.Louis Agassiz, adventurous scientist, Little, Brown, 1961.Adventurous alliance the story of the Agassiz family of Boston, Little, Brown, 1959.Three Saints and a Sinner: Julia Ward Howe, Louisa, Annie and Sam, Little Brown and Co.Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953).The Peabody Sisters of Salem (Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1950).Company of adventurers the story of the Hudson's bay company, Little, Brown and Co., 1946.Champlain: Northwest Voyager, Little Brown, 1944.Tharp published four books of historical fiction before she wrote her first biography, Champlain: Northwest Voyager. The couple had two sons, Carey Edwin, Jr., and Marshall. She married Carey Hunter Tharp of Huntsville, Texas. She trained as an artist for two years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, then went with her father on a tour of Europe.

She was born in Oneonta, New York, but when she was very young the family moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where her father was vicar of the North Congregational Church. Louise Hall Tharp (1898–1992) was an American biographer.

Mrs. Jack by Louise Hall Tharp