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Hannah Parker Kimball (25 April 1861 – 27 August 1921) was an American poet and philanthropist.

Life
a well - to - do Boston woman interested in the plight of working women.

Boston art patrons Hannah Parker Kimball and Mrs. Henry Kimball sponsored Boardman Robinson's first trip to Europe in 1898-99 during which he attended the Académie Colarossi, also visiting the Académie Julian and Léon Gérôme’s class at the École des Beaux-Arts. Hannah Parker  Kimball is a Bostonian, a great friend of mine, and a born Transcendentalist. She is the “philosophical head” among us, does better work every year, and has all worldly advantages in the way of leisure, independent fortune &c., to help her bring out the best that is in her. You can get her two books, ‘Soul & Sense,’ and ‘Victory,’ from Small & Maynard, Boston. She is now in Italy, and has a new volume nearly ready. - Louise Imogen Guiney An associate member of the Animal Rescue League. With a deep sense of loss, we record the death, in the latter part of August, of one of the original Life Associates of the A. S. P. R., Miss Hannah Parker Kimball. In 1920 Miss Kimball became a Life Member, doubling her original contribution to the Endowment Fund. She instituted, in 1920, the first lending library of psychic research that has been conducted under our auspices. It was located in the donor’s home city, Boston, and for a year has met a real need. Moreover, the library has been thrown open generously, as a center of interest, and lectures by the Rev. Dr. Whitehead, the eminent Swedenborgian scholar, and by our own Dr. Titus Bull, eminent in psychic therapy, and by Miss Tubby, the Society’s Secretary, have been given at the library in the season of 1920-21. Boston has long desired and needed such a center and Miss Kimball’s generous and hospitable spirit has made this possible.

It is much to be hoped that Boston members will come forward and make possible the continuance of the work by subscription. A good foundation should not be thrown away.

Let the torch be picked up from the hands that dropped it, before the flame dies down, that her inspiration may be continued. Such support as Miss Kimball gave is rare and precious to those who are in the thick of the work for you and for the world that so needs our angle of vision. Hannah Parker Kimball funded the purchase of this statue (Roman, in the manner of Polykleitos, Male Nude, Late Republican or Early Imperial Roman, ca. 100 B.C.E.-100 C.E., Marble) known as the Wellesley Athlete, in 1904 in memory of her brother, Moses Day Kimball. Intended to help bring in exceptional, authentic works for the students to study, it supported the ‘Wellesley Method’ of teaching. The Wellesley Method, created by Alice van Vechten Brown, first director of the museum, was a groundbreaking strategy advocating for teaching art history with art objects. While many other institutions taught from plaster casts, the Museum provided opportunities for students to encounter real antiquities.

Published three volumes of poetry: The Cup of Life (1892), Soul and Sense (1896), and Victory, and Other Poems (1897).

Lived at 325 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.