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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. [1]
Sarah Hale, credited for getting Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, shows how one person can make a difference.
In "Northwood," the 1827 novel by Sarah Josepha Hale — Thanksgiving's greatest 19th century champion — the November feast was described as the one great event when children and their parents ...
The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was possibly inspired by an actual incident. [1] As described in one of Hale's biographies: "Sarah began teaching young boys and girls in a small school not far from her home [in Newport, New Hampshire ...
This is a Nov. 26, 1996 photo of a painting of Sarah Josepha Hale, painted by James Reid Lambdin. Thanksgiving was celebrated independently by colonies and states for more than 200 years, The ...
Sarah Josepha Hale, a native of New Hampshire and steeped in the traditions of a New England Thanksgiving, was the longtime editor of Godey's Ladies Book, the most widely circulated periodical in the antebellum U.S. Hale was the chief promoter of the modern idea of the holiday in the 19th century, from the foods served to the decorations to the ...
It is thought to have been the first magazine to be edited by a woman; from 1828 until 1836, its editor was Sarah Josepha Hale. [4] As editor, Hale hoped she could aid in the education of women, as she wrote, "not that they may usurp the situation, or encroach on the prerogatives of man; but that each individual may lend her aid to the ...
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