Sarah Josepha Hale
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Standard Name: Hale, Sarah Josepha
Birth Name: Sarah Josepha Buell
Married Name: Sarah Josepha Hale
Pseudonym: A Lady of New-Hampshire
Pseudonym: Cornelia
Mary Had a Little Lamb), poetry, and biography. She won fame as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book and the encyclopaedic biographical dictionary Woman's Record. She offers a complicated, controversial, and in some respects feminist version of middle-class female sensibility as crucial to the republic.
, nineteenth-century American woman of letters and one of that country's earliest female professional journalists, wrote or edited about fifty books. These include fiction, household advice, works for children (she is the author of the nursery-rhyme Timeline
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Texts
Hale, Sarah Josepha. Northwood. Bowles and Dearborn, 1827, 2 vols.
Hale, Sarah Josepha. Sketches of American Character. Putnam and Hunt, 1829.
Hale, Sarah Josepha. The Genius of Oblivion and other Original Poems. Jacob B. Moore, 1823.
Hale, Sarah Josepha. The Good Housekeeper. Weeks, Jordan, 1839.
Hale, Sarah Josepha, editor. The Ladies’ Wreath. Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1837.
Hale, Sarah Josepha. Woman’s Record. Harper and Brothers, 1853.
Hale, Sarah Josepha. Woman’s Record. Harper and Brothers, 1855.
Hale, Sarah Josepha. Woman’s Record. Facsimile of 2nd edition, Source Book Press, 1970.