Sarah Josepha Hale, American author and poet (died 1879)

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…