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Dromo's Den
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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Sarah Josepha Hale Biography HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA (BUELL) (1788-1879). An American editor and author, horn in Newport, N. H. After the death of her husband, in 1822, she turned to literature and throughout the rest of her life was constantly engaged in writing and editing. She took charge of the Boston Ladies' Magazine in 1828 and conducted Godey's Lady's Book after its consolidation with the former in 1837. She advocated the social and intellectual advancement of women and is said first to have suggested Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday. She was also active in raising money to complete the Bunker Hill Monument. She published many volumes of poems, some of which had great contemporary popularity, and edited several anthologies. She also published: Northwood (1827); Sketches of American Character (1830); Traits of American Life (1835); Grosvenor: A Tragedy (1838); Alice Ray (1846), a, romance in rhyme; The Judge: A Drama of American, Life (1854); Woman's Record, or Sketches of Distinguished Women from the Creation to the Present Day (1853). She edited The Letters of Madame de Sévigné (1856), The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856), and other works. The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. X (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 586.
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