An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Jean Anouilh, 1910 – 1987
Sarah Josepha Hale biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Sarah Josepha Hale

Author Name:

Sarah Josepha Hale

Born As:

Sarah Josepha Buell

Other Names:

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

Born:

24 Oct 1788

Died:

30 Apr 1879




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Writer and poet                          
Selected Works:

The Genius of Oblivion; and Other Original Poems - 1823
Northwood - 1827
Traits of American Life - 1835
Sketches of American character - 1838
The Good Housekeeper - 1839
Northwood, or Life North and South - 1852
Liberia; or, Mr Peyton's Experiments - 1853
Flora's Interpreter; or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments - 1853
The New Household Receipt-book - 1854
Women's Record: or Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from Creation to AD 1854-1855
Aunt Mary's New Stories for Young People - Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor - 1849
Manners; or, Happy Homes and Good Society -  1868                          
Mother Martha Whittlesay Buell
Fateher Gordon Buell
Husband David Hale, five children.                          
Campaigned for the creation of the American holiday Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.                          
Credited as the individual most responsible for making Thanksgiving a national holiday in the United States. It had previously been celebrated in New England. Each state scheduled its own holiday, some as early as October and others as late as January. It was largely unknown in the American South. Her advocacy for the national holiday began in 1846 and lasted 17 years before it was successful. Sarah wrote letters to five Presidents of the United States - Zachary Taylor, Millard Filmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. The letter she wrote to Lincoln did convince him to support legislation establishing a national holiday of Thanksgiving in 1863.The national holiday was considered a unifying day after the stress of the American Civil War. Prior to the addition of Thanksgiving, the only national holidays celebrated in the United States were Washington's Birthday and Independence Day.