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	Sarah Josepha Hale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarah Josepha Hale (October 24, 1788 - April 30, 1879) was an American writer.
		During this time, Hale wrote many novels and poems, publishing nearly fifty volumes of work, by the end of her life.
		Hale is also well known as the author of the popular Nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarah_Hale (222 words)

	Godey's Lady's Book: Sarah Josepha Hale Biography
		Born Sarah J. Buell on a New Hampshire farm in 1788, her early education was limited to that which could be provided by her mother.
		Thus, Hale found herself leaving four of her five children to be raised by relatives as she relocated to Boston to begin what would prove to be a long and successful career as an editor.
		Hale envisioned her magazine as a platform to further the education of women.
	www.uvm.edu /~hag/godey/hale.html (751 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sarah Josepha Hale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sarah was widowed in 1822 with five children to support, four under the age of seven.
		Sarah Hale was its editor for forty of those years (1837-1877) and is credited with having a great influence over the reading, learning, and even political consciousness of women across America.
		Hale marketed the magazine to the fathers, brothers, and husbands of female readers by encouraging the men to buy a subscription and ensuring them that their daughters, sisters, and wives would be not only grateful but also better able to please as a result (Greenberg).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sarah-Josepha-Hale (872 words)

	Godey's Lady's Book and Sarah Josepha Hale
		Sarah Hale's interest in education extended to the education of children, and she felt that women were the best suited to this enterprise.
		Sarah Hale believed that as women were ideal for the teaching profession, due to their native patience and understanding, likewise were they perfect candidates for the field of medicine.
		Hale defended her relatively nonconformist position on this issue by employing traditional arguments -- it was "unnatural" for male physicians to treat the intimate complaints of women, and this could cause women to ignore troubling conditions rather that consult with a male practitioner.
	www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1992-3/peters.htm (2252 words)

	Sarah Josepha Hale
		Hale continued to write poetry, novels, and children's literature, while serving as a major editorial force for the next fifty years.
		Hale's editorial policy was to provide quality material to benefit and educate the female reader (Greenberg).
		Hale provided a substantial literary diet for her readers as opposed to the ephemeral poetry and fiction that clogged most women's magazines at the time (Boyer 111-3).
	womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/hale1.html (975 words)

	Thanksgiving history: Sarah Josepha Hale biography
		Sarah Josepha Hale’s name is not familiar to the millions of people who sing “Mary had a Little Lamb.” When most Americans sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, few think of Sarah Josepha Hale.
		President Lincoln was the first president to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday at the behest of Sarah Josepha Hale, who had spent 40 years writing to congressmen, lobbying five presidents, and writing countless editorials in her campaign to create an official day of thanks.
		Sarah upset the prevailing wisdom of the world of education when, at the age of eighteen, she founded a private school and taught there as well.
	nm.essortment.com /thanksgivinghis_rxgy.htm (801 words)

	Sarah Josepha Hale
		In 1813 she married David Hale, a lawyer, brother of Salma Hale, and was left a widow with five children in 1822.
		Hale then resorted to the pen as a means of support, and in 1828 removed to Boston to take charge of the newly established "Ladies' Magazine," which she conducted till 1837.
		Hale proposed through her Boston magazine that the women of New England should raise $50,000 to complete the Bunker Hill monument, and took a leading part in organizing the fair by which the suggestion was successfully carried out.
	www.famousamericans.net /sarahjosephahale (1008 words)

	Richards Free Library Hale Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Sarah Josepha Hale Award, presented annually since 1956, is a New England award given by the trustees of the Richards Free Library, Newport, New Hampshire, in recognition of a distinguished body of work written in the field of literature and letters.
		Sarah’s first job as a schoolteacher may have been inevitable, but her commitment to educating boys and girls was far from ordinary.
		Sarah’s determination may be credited to her early education and the challenges she faced upon her husband’s death, or she may have been naturally assertive at a time when the majority of American women remained silent at home.
	www.newport.lib.nh.us /HaleAw.htm (1791 words)

	Sarah Josepha Hale Biography / Biography of Sarah Josepha Hale Biography
		Sarah Josepha Buell was born in Newport, N.H. She was educated at home and in October 1813 married David Hale, a lawyer.
		Hale wrote most of the material for each issue, and every month she pressed her arguments in favor of improved education for women and a role for women in the culture as teachers and moral guides.
		Though she always contributed freely to all departments of the magazine, as the years went by Hale concentrated most of her attention 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.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-sarah-josepha-hale (513 words)

	Sarah Hale Recitation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although not afforded the same educational avenues as men, Hale was steadfast in her learning pursuits; Horatio, Hale's brother, shared with her much of the knowledge he gained as a student at Dartmouth College, in the areas of Latin, mathematics and philosophy.
		Hale was promptly inserted as the new magazine's editor; she remained in Boston as editor of Godey's Lady's Book until 1841, upon which time Hale moved to Philadelphia – to continue as editor.
		Hale is probably best remembered as a quietly independent “agent of change.” She was a woman who, despite using her talents to forward opportunities in education and careers for women, believed passionately in how femininity, softness and “tender power” defined a woman's make-up.
	www.lighthousegl.com /hale.html (1257 words)

	The Life and Accomplishments of Sarah Josepha Hale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sarah Josepha Hale was born in 1788 in New Hampshire.
		She later married David Hale and began her life with as a mother and wife, bearing David four children while he was alive, and a fifth child to him two months after he died of pneumonia.
		Sarah was an Episcopalian, and in the late 1820’s to early 1830’s met an Episcopalian minister who had started a religious school for young women.
	www.bivouacbooks.com /bbv3i2s3.htm (1501 words)

	Thank You Sarah Teahcer's Guide
		During the research for Thank You, Sarah, Laurie Halse Anderson discovered that she was a distant relative of Sarah Hale.
		When Sarah Hale was pregnant with her third child, her health failed, and the doctors said she would soon die.
		Sarah Hale wrote all her letters and books by hand, using a quill pen and bottles of ink.
	www.writerlady.com /ThankYouSarahGuide.html (978 words)

	She Helped Give Us Thanksgiving
		Sarah Hale continued to write and edit until she was 89.
		Hale saw this spiritual dimension of Thanksgiving as a means for preventing the insanity of civil war in America.
		Of course, Sarah Hale was unable to avert those saddest years of American history, but in 1863, as civil war ravished the land, Abraham Lincoln did issue the proclamation Hale had spent nearly 40 years and thousands of letters to procure.
	www.bestyears.com /sarah_hale.html (637 words)

	Feeding America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sarah Josepha Hale was born in Newport, New Hampshire, the third of four children and the daughter of Martha Whittlesey and Gordon Buell, who had been an officer during the American Revolution and was an innkeeper.
		Hale also authored and edited close to fifty books during her long career, including the two in this collection, The Good Housekeeper, or The Way to Live Well and to Be Well While We Live (1839) and The Ladies' New Book of Cookery: A Practical System for Private Families in Town and Country (1852).
		Hale retired from Godey's at the end of 1877, less than two years before her death in Philadelphia at age ninety.
	digital.lib.msu.edu /projects/cookbooks/html/authors/author_hale.html (881 words)

	Tomie.com * Spotlight On *
		Sarah Josepha Hale had been born in the nearby village of Guild (pronounced "guile"), home of the recently closed Dorr Woolen Mill.
		SJH swore on her deathbed that she was the sole author of the poem.
		Sarah Josepha Hale, due to a tireless letter-writing campaign convinced President Abraham Lincoln to declare a Thursday in November as the National Holiday of Thanksgiving!
	www.tomie.com /books/spotlight_on_mary.html (616 words)

	Sarah Josepha Hale -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		née Sarah Josepha Buell American writer who, as the first female editor of a magazine, shaped many of the attitudes and thoughts of women of her period.
		Sarah Josepha Buell married David Hale in 1813, and with him she had five children.
		U.S. editor and author Sarah Josepha Hale was the first female editor of a magazine in the United States.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038868?&query=godey's (632 words)

	Disappointment: Do Women Look for It?
		Early in her marriage, Sarah Hale was diagnosed with what was called quick consumption, for which there was no cure.
		Hale opened a store where the wives of the sailors could work for good wages and sell the clothing they made from their own hands to the public.
		Hale, having been born shortly after the American Revolution, had an enormous fear that her "beloved Union" might be dissolved.
	home.nyc.rr.com /bcmnc/Meryl/Women/Disappointed_section3.html (1285 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the 19th century American journalist Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale (1788-1879), who for more than 40 years (1836-77) coedited the fashion and literary magazine Godey's Lady's Book, one of the most influential periodicals of the era.
		Hale was born Sarah Josepha Buell in Newport, New Hampshire.
		In 1828 she became editor of "Ladies' Magazine" and used its columns to campaign for women's education, arguing that educated women made better mates rather than directly challenging the prevailing prejudice that women were intellectually inferior to men.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=741 (274 words)

	The Philadellphia Touch: Sarah Josepha Hale
		The piece is basic research about Sarah Josepha Hale and her efforts to establish a national day of Thanksgiving.
		To this were added strong words at the beginning and end to focus on the locally-based magazine and also on Hale's determination, stressing her as an early feminist.
		Hale's influence grew, she became more assertive in her crusade for an official thanksgiving date.
	www.delamar.org /gnpthnksgvg.htm (787 words)

	Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell) on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA (BUELL) [Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell)] 1788-1879, American author, editor, and feminist, b.
		Hale cultivated female authors and constantly urged the higher education of women.
		Flowers of manhood: race, sex and floriculture from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Robert Mapplethorpe.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hale-S1ar.asp (196 words)

	Seamen's Aid Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Society was conceived in 1833 by Sarah Josepha Hale, author, social reformer, and longtime editor of Godey's Lady's Book.
		Unlike many similar societies, Hale was primarily concerned with the wives and children of sailors, left behind in frequent poverty while their main provider toiled at sea.
		Author of novels and poetry, Sarah Josepha Hale also penned a cautionary tale to the young sailor, "Harry Guy, The Widow's Son: A Story of the Sea" published in 1848.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /imagearchive/his3487/mercado/sas.html (346 words)

	Her Name is Sarah
		They were the daughters of a judge and slave owner and were educated at home but later on their careers became inextricably intertwined.
		When Angelina married in 1838 Sarah went to live with her at Fort Lee and then at a communal settlement at Rariton Bay Union in New Jersey where they campaigned, wrote and taught together until their retirement in 1867.
		Sarah was the FIRST woman in America to support herself throughout her career by her work as an artist and like many European women artists she came from a family of painters.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /m.gratton/Names/Sarah.htm (1633 words)

	Newport, NH: Culture & Recreation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sarah Hale's fame hangs on her authorship's of a little poem which captures the imaginations of the world in Mary Had A Little Lamb.
		Hale made the long trip from her home in Philadelphia to be in Newport for the Great Homecoming, but upon her return, wrote an account of the trip for Godey's Ladies Book...
		Because Sarah Hale made no comment on the coming of the Civil War, it may have been a blow from which her readers and her prestige never recovered.
	www.newportnh.net /nrec.htm (3458 words)

	Feeding America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hale authored a number of cookbooks which were published in more than thirty editions and printings in America, and were also published in England.
		Hale wrote The Good Housekeeper in 1939, the number of original American cookbooks published was quite small, fewer than thirty.
		Hale's aim was to "select and combine the excellence of these two systems, at the same time keeping in view the important object of preserving health and thus teach how to live well, and to be well while we live."
	digital.lib.msu.edu /projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_11.cfm (463 words)

	Mary Had a Little Lamb
		Sarah Josepha Hale was born on a New Hampshire farm in 1788.
		Her husband died in 1822 and Hale became a writer in order to support her family.
		Hale, Sarah J., "Mary's Lamb," in The Juvenile Miscellany,September/October, 1830, p.
	www.recess.ufl.edu /transcripts/2003/1029.shtml (288 words)

	Custom written biography on Sarah Josepha Hale \| Essays on 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.
		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.
		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 and Rutter, 1985.
	www.swiftpapers.com /biographies/Sarah_Josepha_Hale-33784.html (338 words)

	Books of the poet: Sarah Josepha Hale - book works writings work
		Sarah Josepha Hale, author of "Early American Cookery" was the editor of the "Ladies' Magazine" from 1827 to 1836, and then editor of "Godey's Lady's Book" from 1837 to 1877.
		If you are interested in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans, most especially what they ate, how they cleaned house, and how they raised their children, this book is a gold mine.
		Sarah Josepha Hale wrote the original in 1830, with 24 lines.
	www.poemhunter.com /sarah-josepha-hale/books/poet-12828 (792 words)

	The Magazines
		Sarah Josephia Hale as his main "Editoress", combining his "Ladies Book" with her own highly successful "Ladies Magazine".
		Born October 24, 1788 and raised in Newport, New Hampshire, she was of course, like most gentlewomen of her day, educated at home and owed most of her "learning" to her older brother, Horiatio, who taught her the rudiments of Latin - a heady subject for a young woman in the 19th Century.
		After her young husband's untimely death from pneumonia, Sarah took up sewing, the usual "career-path" acceptable to women in the 19th Century.
	members.aol.com /LaFollet/meetmrgodey.htm (564 words)

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