A fascinating, capable, and prolific author and, for fifty years, editor of her day's most successful magazine, Sarah Josepha Hale influenced immeasurably American middle-class mores. Sensitive to the contemporary social currents, astute in her...

Mention of the nineteenth-century woman's movement immediately brings to mind the names of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Bloomer, and Lucretia Mott. There were other women, however, who made significant contributions, but, in Ida M....

An accomplished editor and author whose career spanned more than five decades, Sarah Josepha Hale was a successful and influential figure in the antebellum literary world. For more than four decades she edited Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular...

Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale (24 October 1788-30 April 1879), editor, poet, and novelist, was born in Newport, New Hampshire. She was well-educated in the classics by her family and her desire to learn continued after her marriage in 1813 to a lawyer,...

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...