Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879

LC control no.	n 50018810
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS1774.H2
Personal name heading	Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hale, Mrs. (Sarah Josepha Buell), 1788-1879 Hale, S. J. (Sarah Josepha), Mrs., 1788-1879 Hale, Sara Josepha, 1788-1879 Hale, Sarah Josepha, 1788-1879 Hale, Sarah Jane, 1788-1879 Lady, 1788-1879 Lady of New Hampshire, 1788-1879 Buell Hale, Sarah Josepha, 1788-1879
Associated place	Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)
Birth date	1788-10-24
Death date	1879-04-30
Place of birth	Newport (N.H.)
Place of death	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Field of activity	Thanksgiving Day
Affiliation	Vassar College
Profession or occupation	Editor Poet Novelist
Found in	Alice Ray : a romance, 1845: title page (Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale) <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002095958n&seq=5> Mary had a little lamb, c1984: CIP t.p. (Sarah Josepha Hale) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Hale, Sarah Joseph (Buell), Mrs., 1788-1879) Woman's record, 1874, c1870: t.p. (Mrs. Hale) The good housekeeper, 1839: t.p. (Mrs. S.J. Hale) verso t.p. (Sarah J. Hale) Autographs from the collection of the late Augustin Daly, New York, 1925: title page, etc. (Sara Josepha Hale; Autographs from the collection of the late Augustin Daly, New York : to be sold by order of Mr. Edward H. Daly, Mr. James C. Duff, administrators. The autograph collection of the late Sara Josepha Hale, editor of "The ladies magazine" and "The ladies' book of Philadelphia" : to be sold by order of Mrs. Alice H. Morris, with other consignments; catalog of 296 items for an auction held April 27, 1925) <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.179477/page/n21/mode/2up?q=hale> <https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/6362654> Mary had little lamb, 1916: title page (Sarah Josepha Hale; originally was in her book Poems for our children (1830)) <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044012580858&seq=3> Bibliography of American literature, 1959: volume 3, pages 319-340 (Sarah Josepha Buell Hale; Sarah Josepha Hale; Lady of New Hampshire; a Lady; Mrs. Sarah J. Hale; Mrs. Hale; Mrs. S. J. Hale; born 1788; died 1879; editor of Godey's Lady's Book in October 1841; she moved to Philadelphia in 1841; she edited a series of juvenile books first published by Edward Dunnigan in New York (1842-1848) and were later republished by McGloughlin Bros. in New York as the Little Boys' and Girls' Library with the editorship credited to Mrs. Sarah Jane Hale, an error which has caused much confusion; author and editor of several books including Alice Ray : a romance (1845), Poems for our children (1830), Woman's record (1853), and The good housekeeper (1839)) <https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofam0003blan/page/n7/mode/2up?q=sarah+j> National Park Service website, April 27, 2024: (Sarah Josepha Hale; born in Newport, New Hampshire; her father, Captain Gordon Buell, served as an officer in the American Revolution before marrying Martha Whitilesey and becoming a tavern keeper; her brother Horatio was a graduate of Dartmouth College; became a teacher; at 25 years old, Sarah Josepha married David Hale (died 1822), a Newport attorney whose family helped found New Hampshire's Dartmouth College; they had five children; by 1822 Sarah Josepha had become a skillful writer; in 1823, her first collection of poems, The genius of oblivion was published thanks to financial support from David's Masonic Lodge; in 1827, her abolitionist novel, Northwood : life north and south, so entranced the Rev. John Lauris Blake of Boston that he asked her to become editor for his new Ladies' Magazine in Boston from 1828 to 1841; her most famous book, Poems for our children, first published in 1829, included Mary had a little lamb still a popular nursey rhyme today; in 1833 she helped establish the Seaman's Aid Society in Boston's North End and this auxiliary to the Boston Port Society developed job training, financial opportunities, and social support for impoverished wives and children of sailors and it gave women the opportunity to keep their families fed, clothed, and housed; in the summer of 1840, a Boston women's sewing circle of Seaman's Aid Society members, led by Sarah Josepha Hale, conceived of using a women's fair to generate the $30,000 necessary to complete the Bunker Hill Monument; in 1841 Hale's position as editor of Godey's Lady's Book (merged with the Ladies' Magazine in 1837) brought her to Philadelphia and as editor for the next 30 years, she influenced women across the U.S. and empowered them as agents distributing American national identity and culture; Hale encouraged women to write for Godey's and paid them well; her extraordinary 900-page Women's record : sketches of distinguished women from the creation to A.D. 1850 first appeared in 1853; she crusaded for many years to make Thanksgiving, a symbol of national unity, a federal holiday which started in 1846, this long-term trek finally reached its goal in October 1863, when President Lincoln released a proclamation; she retired from Godey's Lady's Book in December 1877 at the age of 89; she died in 1879, having made a huge impact on American middle-class culture and gender identity) <https://www.nps.gov/people/sarah-josepha-hale.htm> Newport, New Hamshire government website, April 27, 2024: (Sarah Josepha Hale; born 1788 in Newport, New Hampshire; died 1879; second of four children of Gordon Buell and Martha Whittlesey; editor of Godey's Lady's Book; she helped organize Vassar College; responsible for Thanksgiving as a National Holiday; she was also an early champion of elementary education for girls equal to that for boys and also of higher education for women; she was the first to advocate women as teachers in the public schools) <https://www.newportnh.gov/about-newport/pages/notable-natives> National Women's History Museum website, April 27, 2024: (Sarah Josepha Hale; born October 24, 1788 in Newport, New Hampshire; died 1879; author of the nursery rhyme Mary had a little lamb; editor of the Godey's Lady's Book; used her persuasive writings to support the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday) <https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sarah-hale> Encyclopaedia Britannica website, April 27, 2024: (Sarah Josepha Hale; Sarah Josepha Buell; born October 24, 1788 in Newport, New Hampshire; died April 30, 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; married David Hale in 1813, and with him she had five children; left in financial straits by her husband's death in 1822, she embarked on a literary career; her poems were printed over the signature Cornelia in local journals and were gathered in The genius of oblivion (1823); a novel, Northwood, a tale of New England (1827), brought her an offer to go to Boston as editor of a new publication, the Ladies' Magazine (from 1834 the American Ladies' Magazine), which she accepted in 1828; she also published during this period Poems for our children (1830) which contained her single most famous piece Mary had a little lamb; editor of the the Juvenile Miscellany magazine for children (1834-1836); her major achievement was the Woman's record; or, sketches of distinguished women (issued in 1853, 1869, and 1876) and in the course of this ambitious project she completed some 36 volumes of profiles of women, tracing their influence through history on social organization and literature; she retired from Godey's Lady's Book in December 1877 at the age of 89) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Josepha-Hale> Find A Grave website, April 27, 2024: (Sarah Josepha Hale; Sarah J. Hale; born October 24, 1788; died April 30, 1879; buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia) <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/434/sarah-josepha-hale> Friends of Laurel Hill & West Laurel Hill Cemeteries (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Instagram page, April 27, 2024: posted November 26, 2020 (Sarah Josepha Hale; born October 24, 1788; died April 30, 1879; successfully petitioned Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863; buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery) <https://www.instagram.com/p/CIDuzblgraH/>
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