HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA (BUELL)

1788–1879, American author, editor, and feminist, b. near Newport, N.H. In 1828 she became editor of the Ladies' Magazine, Boston, and in 1837 of Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, where she remained over 40 years. The illustrated Lady's Book strongly influenced fashions and manners of her day. Mrs. Hale cultivated female authors and constantly urged the higher education of women. She also advocated a national Thanksgiving holiday. Her poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was published in her Poems for Our Children (1830).

See O. W. Burt, First Woman Editor (1960).

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The Lady of Godey's, Sarah Josepha Hale
Book by Ruth E. Finley; J. B. Lippincott, 1931
Subjects: Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell--1788-1879
...over the destinies of Godeys Ladys Book , the most widely circulated magazine of her times. Her name was Sarah Josepha Buell Hale. She signed herself, "The Lady Editor." Only less remarkable than her accomplishment is the fact that this...
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Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller
Book by Nicole Tonkovich; University Press of Mississippi, 1997
Subjects: American Prose Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Prose Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Beecher, Catharine Esther--1800-1878, Family In Literature, Fern, Fanny--1811-1872--Prose, Fiction, Fuller, Margaret--1810-1850--Prose, Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell--1788-1879--Prose, Home In Literature, Marriage In Literature, Sex Role In Literature, Women And Journalism--United States--History--19th Century, Women--United States--History--19th Century--Historiography
...History -- 19th century. 5. Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 -- Prose. 6...Two: FATHERLESS DAUGHTERS: Sarah Josepha Hale and Fanny Fern 26...period might receive. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 1788-1879 The details...
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Women during the Civil War: An Encyclopedia
Book by Judith E. Harper; Routledge, 2003
...Guerrilla War Gunboat Societies H Hale, Sarah Josepha Hamilton, Gail Harper, Frances...Women Mitchell, Maria Morgan, Sarah Mormon Women Mountain Charley...Vinnie Refugees Religion Remond, Sarah Parker Roswell Women S Sanitary...
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Into the Mouths of Babes: An Anthology of Children's Abolitionist Literature
Book by Deborah C. De Rosa; Praeger, 2005
Subjects: American Literature--19th Century, American Literature--Women Authors, Antislavery Movements--Literary Collections, Children's Literature, American, Didactic Literature, American, Slavery--Literary Collections
...The Negro Boys Tale" 6 Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 13 From Poems for Our...public meeting in Norwich. SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE (OCTOBER 24, 1788-APRIL...of childrens literature, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale represents one of the earliest...
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Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook
Book by Nancy D. Signorielli; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Communication Specialists--Biography--Dictionaries, Women In Communication--Dictionaries
...Katharine Graham 1917- 173 Candace Lewis Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 1788-1879 188 Diane Zimmerman Umble Herta Herzog 1910...
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Flowers of Manhood: Race, Sex and Floriculture from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Robert Mapplethorpe
Journal article by Christopher Looby; Criticism, Vol. 37, 1995
Subjects: Blacks--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Flowers in art--Social aspects, Nude in art--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Published and Unpublished, ed. Lawrence Buell and Sandra A. Zagarell Philadelphia...University Press, 1993), 232-82. 31. Sarah Josepha Hale, Floras Interpreter; or, The American...be said to prove the rule. 47. Hale, 256, 254. 48. Whitman, "Calamus...


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Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell)
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HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA (BUELL) 1788 1879, American author, editor, and feminist, b. near Newport...Ladys Book strongly influenced fashions and manners of her day. Mrs. Hale cultivated female authors and constantly urged the higher education...


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