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1788	Sarah Josepha Buell is born in Newport, New Hampshire.	Her brother goes to Dartmouth; Sarah studied his texts at home.
1813	Sarah marries lawyer David Hale.
1822	David Hale dies, leaving Sarah a mother and a widow at 34.
1828	Sarah moves to Boston and publishes verse and a novel. She begins editing the American Ladies’ Magazine and Literary Gazette..
1830	Godey founds Godey's Lady's Book, eventually purchasing the American Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette. "Mary's Lamb" is published in Poems for Our Children.	For the poem, she used a standard structure: a problem presented the development of action a conclusion developed into a moral Often reprinted with no credit to the author (customary) and songs, parodies, and appropriations were numerous. Godey published one hundred of these and he and Sarah Hale finally got sick of the matter. In 1872, they wrote: Mary had a little lamb, ‘Twas subject to the gout; At last she got disgusted, And put it up the spout.
1837	Sarah begins to edit the Lady's Book.
1839		The daguerrotype was invented and introduced into this country in 1840.
1841	Sarah moves to Philidelphia. She personally wrote the "Editor's Table" and "Editor's Books" and signed all her letters “truly your friend.” Hale referred to herself as “The Lady Editor.”
1845	Godey copyrights his material.
1846	Through the Lady's Book, Hale publicized many social and educational causes.	Washington celebrated a national day of thanksgiving. Hale campaigned for the holiday from 1846 until 1863, when Lincoln proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November. Her grandson remembers that she said she had visited President Lincoln.
1851	Sarah Hale supports Elizabeth Oakes Smith, a writer and advocate of women's rights, and the first woman to travel and speak on the lyceum circuit. Sarah is 63 years old.	Hale did not support women abolitionists and supports colonization for slaves over total emancipation. She believed in sharp separation of men’s and women’s spheres but believed that woman’s sphere extends into public life.
1852	Hale introduces the French word “Lingerie” to describe white work or plain sewing, to encourage clean linens, and is very sincere about dress which should be neat and clean, even if it is not “seen”.	She was against tight-lacing and wasp-waists for health reason.
1858	Circulation of the Lady's Book is over 150,000.
1860	She writes about Singer and encourages women to purchase the sewing machines, arguing that what would take 20 hours could now take 2 or 3. She had already been writing about the machine’s possibilities.	Singer, patented 1851 [ the French machine, 1830; the Elias Howe, lock-stitch machine, 1846. Allen Wilson's "Wheeler and Wilson" machine was patented in 1849 and went on the market later.}
1861	Vassar College is founded, which Hale supported.
1877	Godey dies a few months before publication of the final issue, still edited by Hale, in December 1877. Sarah is 90 years old.	She worked in her bedroom, a huge room with a bed at one end, walls lined with shelves, four cages of canaries, and a large table desk.
1879	Sarah dies. In her lifetime she published 7 volumes of poetry, six volumes of fiction, as well as several popular books on cooking and housekeeping. She wrote Woman’s Record, or Sketches of Distinguished Women (1853; republished twice), 36 volumes. She edited over 2 dozen books (poetry, letters).

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