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The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
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Nursery rhyme
Traditional song or poem for children
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Nursery rhyme
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English-language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin, first published by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. Its Roud Folk Song Index number is 7622.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sarah Josepha Hale
American writer and editor (1788–1879)
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 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. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)