Sarah Preston Everett Hale
BornSarah Preston Everett
5 September 1796
Massachusetts
Died14 November 1866
Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican

Sarah Preston Everett Hale (5 September 1796 – 14 November 1866) was an American diarist, translator, columnist and newspaper publisher.

Biography

Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1796 Sarah Preston Everett was the daughter of the Reverend Oliver Everett and Lucy Hill. When Hale's father died in 1802, her mother moved the family to Boston. Hale's brother became the politician Edward Everett while she married lawyer Nathan Hale and with him published the Boston Daily Advertiser. Hales bore eleven children, though only seven survived infancy. They included the writers Lucretia Peabody Hale and Edward Everett Hale, the artist Susan Hale and politician Charles Hale. Her diaries are in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Hale's common place books contain her translations, poems and stories. Hale also created a reader entitled Boston reading lessons for primary schools, published in 1828.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ "Hale, Sarah Preston (1796–1866) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ Taylor, Alan (18 May 2021). American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1-324-00580-3.
  3. ^ Harris, Christopher (7 December 2018). Public Lives, Private Virtues: Images of American Revolutionary War Heroes, 1782-1832. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-82901-9.
  4. ^ "Sarah Preston Everett Hale (1796-1866)". www.findagrave.com.
  5. ^ "Stanford catalog". searchworks.stanford.edu.
  6. ^ "Boston Daily Advertiser". findingaids.smith.edu. Smith College.
  7. ^ James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S.; College, Radcliffe (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5.
  8. ^ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1859). "A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased: From the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century". Childs & Peterson.
  9. ^ Valdes, Annmarie. "Seekers and Observers: Life Histories of Three Female Antebellum Historians" (PDF). Loyola University Chicago.
  10. ^ "The Peterkin Papers – (Not So) Shocking Secrets of the Hale Family". New England Historical Society. 1 March 2016.


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