A mem­ber of the Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal de­nom­in­a­tion, Sarah mar­ried law­yer Da­vid Hale (?-1822). She ed­it­ed The La­dies’ Mag­a­zine (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts) from 1828, and Go­dey’s La­dy’s Book (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia) from 1837. The se­cu­lar world re­mem­bers her best per­haps for her po­em “Mary Had a Lit­tle Lamb,” first pub­lished in Ju­ve­nile Mis­cel­lany. Her other works in­clude:

• Northwood; A Tale of New Eng­land (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: 1827)

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1. Our Father in Heaven