![]() ![]() Sarah Hale was not just an editor and poet, She was also a novelist who wrote about the evils of slavery some 30 years before the civil war, a woman’s activist in particular as an advocate for women’s access to higher education, indeed she helped found Vasser Collage in furtherance of that aim. *Aside being a type of early sound recording device The Phonographic is also the legendary Goth club in Leeds where The Mission were founded out of the shattered remains of the original Sisters of Mercy, and I once briefly got chatted up by Marc Almond… ![]() A poem you may well of heard of that was written by Sarah Josepha Hale 47 years earlier… ![]() Also in that year that Thomas Edison made the first ever human speech recorded on a phonographic* device reciting the opening lines of the poem ‘Mary had a little lamb’ into the crude recording device. She did not retire until 1877 she was 89. For much of that history it editor was Sarah Josepha Hale who is even more fascinating than the magazine she edited for forty years. Godey’s has quite a history in American publishing, running for nearly fifty years between 18, which took it right through the civil war. It’s a bit like Stephen King writing a story for Cosmopolitan. ![]() The pages of popular woman’s periodical of the 1830’s, Godey’s Lady’s Book, would on the face of it seem a strange place for our the first of own Dear Edgar horror stories to find a home. ![]()
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