Author, Editor and Champion of Women’s Education
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879) was America’s first woman editor and the author of many novels and poems, publishing nearly fifty volumes of work in her lifetime. President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1864 after Hale had spent 40 years campaigning for a national day of thanks. An early activist for women’s education and property rights and editor of the 19th century’s most successful woman’s magazine (Godey’s) – these are only a few of the many accomplishments of the extraordinary woman who is now unknown to most Americans.
Childhood and Early Years
Sarah Josepha Buell was born October 24, 1788 in Newport, New Hampshire to Gordon and Martha Whittlesay Buell. A voracious reader of whatever books were available, Sarah noticed that “of all the
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Difficult financial times forced the sale of the American Ladies Magazine to Louis Godey, the Philadelphia publisher of Godey’s Lady’s Book. He merged the two magazines and hired Sarah Hale as the editor. They forged a highly successful partnership that turned Godey’s magazine into one of the most successful of its day with 150,000 subscribers.
Despite the success of the magazine, its continuation was jeopardized by the economic difficulties of the 1830s. In early 1836 Hale was approached by Louis Godey, the Philadelphia publisher of Godey’s Lady’s Book, to edit his magazine, but she insisted on remaining in Boston while her youngest son was attending Harvard College, and declined his offer. When he later offered to buy American Ladies Magazine and install her as editor of the new combined magazine from Boston, she
...mes, and Paul Boyer. Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Volume III: P-Z. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. Print.
Clinton, Catherine. The Other Civil War, American Women in the Nineteenth Century: Hill and Wang, New York 1986
In Quindlen’s "Blessed is the Full Plate", she obviously talks about poverty and hunger in the United States. This is a passionate or emotional (Pathos) and consistent or logical (Logos) piece that exhibits the seriousness of a grasping appetite scourge in the South Bronx. She noticed that the offer of the country's salary setting off to the best one percent of its natives is at its largest amount since 1928. She specifies purposes behind the lack of nourishment for the poor in the United States. She examines the ravenous individuals being bolstered at the Church of the Holy Apostles in New York City. Fundamentally focused at legislators and in addition the overall population, "Blessed Is the Full Plate" starts by asking where the will is to make the best choice for the hungry. To my understanding this was composed to educate the overall population about the craving issue in New York, particularly the South Bronx.
Tarbell began her career as a teacher in Poland, Ohio and after two years, “she realized teaching was too much for her and that she enjoyed writing more” (Lowrie). Tarbell returned to Pennsylvania, where she met Theodore L. Flood, editor of The Chautauquan (Lowrie). She quickly accepted Flood's offer to write for the paper; she said, “I was glad to be useful, for I had grown up with what was called the Chautauqua movement” (Lowrie). In 1886, she became the managing editor (Lowrie). In 1890, Ida wrote articles for many magazines, including McClure's Magazine, and was eventually offered the position of editor for McClure's (King). Her series on Abraham Lincoln ended up being published into a book because the articles doubled the magazine's popularity (King). This gave Tarbell a national reputation as a major writer.
Clinton's main idea of the book is to in light the confusion on a category of American women in the nineteenth-century. Her significant benefaction of the work lies perhaps
“Thus had died and been laid to rest in the most quiet, unostentatious way the most useful and distinguished woman America had yet produced,” (Wilson, Pg. 342).
The HarperCollins publishers in New York published American Jezebel written by Eve LaPlante in 2004. Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six year old pregnant midwife living in early Puritan Massachusetts, stood in court in front of forty male judges. Hutchinson was charged with heresy and sedition. Hutchinson exerted significant political power in a time when woman could not even hold public office, vote or teach outside of their home. Women were practically stripped of all rights and were invisible in the public eyes. Unlike the other women, Hutchinson was eventually able to surpass the gender limits of early colonial America.
However, men were not the only ones. Multiple women began expressing their thoughts in print. The first American woman to support herself as an author was Hannah Adams. She published books on religious history and
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In this paper I will talk about some information that I have obtained from reading Mary Piphers, Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and give my view on some of her main points and arguments. I also will discuss why I feel Mary Pipher’s views on the toxic influence of media are accurate, and that it does affect adolescent girls. This paper will also point out the importance of Mary Pipher’s studies on the problems that today’s female teens are facing and why I feel they are important and cannot be ignored.
Solomon, Barbara H., ed. Rediscoveries: American Short Stories by Women, 1832-1916. New York: Penguin Group, 1994.
Bloch, Ruth H. American Feminine Ideals in Transition: The Rise of the Moral Mother, 1785-1815.
American women have changed the way they are viewed by society greatly over the years. This has occurred with the first woman fighting for her country in her husband’s place to the Nineteenth Amendment and many years afterward.
Solomon, Barbara H., ed. Rediscoveries: American Short Stories by Women, 1832-1916. New York: Penguin Group, 1994.
Throughout literature’s history, female authors have been widely recognized for their groundbreaking and eye-opening accounts of what it means to be a woman in society. In most cases of early literature, women are portrayed as weak and unintelligent characters who rely solely on their male counterparts. Also during this time period, it would be shocking to have women characters in some stories, especially since their purpose is only secondary to that of the male protagonist. But, in the late 17th to early 18th century, a crop of courageous women began publishing their works, beginning the literary feminist movement. Together, Aphra Behn, Charlotte Smith, Fanny Burney, and Mary Wollstonecraft challenge the status quo of what it means to be a woman during the time of the Restoration Era and give authors and essayists of the modern day, such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a platform to become powerful, influential writers of the future.