Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer and an influential editor. She is the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
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- The Antebellum Home and Woman's Culture (Part 2)
The ascendance of Godey's Lady's Book, Catharine Beecher, and the "Cult of True Womanhood" was an important facet of women's culture in the mid-1800s.
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- Sarah Josepha Hale: A New England Pioneer, 1788-1879 - Sherbrooke Rogers
- Sarah Josepha Hale: The life and times of a nineteenth-century career woman - Norma R Fryatt
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