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Biography of Sarah Josepha Hale
Name: Sarah Josepha Hale
Birth Date: 1788
Death Date: 1879
Place of Birth: Newport, New Hampshire, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: editor, writer
Sarah Josepha Hale
For nearly 50 years Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879) was the editor of America's most influential women's magazine.Sarah Josepha Buell was born in Newport, N.H. She was educated at home and in October 1813 married David Hale, a lawyer. He encouraged her to write for local newspapers. When he died in 1822, leaving his widow with five children, Mrs. Hale attempted a full-scale literary career. Some early verse was well received, and in 1827 her first novel, Northwood: A Tale of New England, brought her serious critical attention. The Reverend John Laurie Blake was just about to found a monthly magazine for women in Boston, and he offered her the editorship. Accepting, she moved to Boston in 1828 and edited Ladies' Magazine there until 1837.The magazine was a success, the first of its kind to take an important place in American periodical publication. It featured fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism and was characterized by its …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…on the sections called "Literary Notices" and "Editor's Table." It was there that she tirelessly managed her campaign to establish standards of taste, delicacy, and decorum for American women.Among her 36 volumes of essays, fiction, drama, poetry, cookbooks, and giftbooks, Hale published the huge Women's Record: Sketches of Distinguished Women, in at least three editions. Her poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" first appeared in Poems for Our Children in 1830.At the age of 90 Hale contributed her last article and retired, the acknowledged arbiter of 19th century American feminine manners and morals. Further Reading A scholarly, full-length study of Mrs. Hale is Ruth E. Finley, The Lady of Godey's: Sarah Josepha Hale (1931). Her career is also recounted in Helen Beal Woodward, The Bold Women (1953), and Walter Davenport and James C. Derieux, Ladies, Gentlemen and Editors (1960).Rogers, Sherbrooke, Sarah Josepha Hale: a New England pioneer, 1788-1879, Grantham, N.H.: Tompson & Rutter, 1985.
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