Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (born in
Shirley, Massachusetts
Shirley is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately thirty miles west-northwest of Boston. The population was 7,431 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town has ...
, 17 March 1819; died in
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester ( ) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of North Shore (Massachusetts), Massachusetts's North Shore. The population was 29,729 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. Census. ...
, 9 July 1848) was an American author and editor.
Biography
She did well in the district school, and attended
Westford Academy
Westford Academy is the public high school for the town of Westford, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1792 and is one of the oldest public high schools in the United States.
History
Westford Academy (WA) was founded as a ...
for a semester. She taught herself French and Latin. To offset reduced income from her father's business,
she began to contribute to journals at the age of 16, and at 17 she joined the
Universalist Church, which her parents, manufacturer Joseph Edgarton and his second wife Mehitable Whitcomb, also belonged to.
[
She edited ''The Rose of Sharon'', an annual, from 1840 until 1848,]Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
, from 1839 until 1842.[ She associated with the writer Charlotte Ann Fillebrown Jerauld.
With her earnings, she was able to support her family through its financial troubles and also put her younger brother, John Marshall Edgarton, through ]Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
. Her brother taught her German, and obtained books from Harvard for her.[ He graduated in 1847, and began work on starting a magazine, but died that year.]Amory Dwight Mayo
Amory Dwight Mayo (31 January 1823 - 8 April 1907) was a Christian clergyman and educator.
Biography
Amory Dwight Mayo was born in Warwick, Massachusetts, the son of Amory Mayo and Sophronia Cobb. He enrolled at Amherst College in 1843. During ...
in 1846,[ and the couple moved to Gloucester.][ They had a daughter in September 1847. Her health deteriorated afterward, and she died in July 1848.][
]
References
Further reading
Archival sources
Richard James Hooker collection, 1788-1890
(1 linear foot) is housed at the Schlesinger Library
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a research library at Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. According to Nancy F. Cott, the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, it is "the ...
at Radcliffe Institute. ''Contains correspondence between Luella Case and Sarah Edgarton.''
Jonathan Ned Katz papers, 1947-2004
are housed at the New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress a ...
. ''Contains research notes on Luella Case and Sarah Edgarton.''
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1819 births
1848 deaths
American fiction writers
American editors
19th-century American poets
Poets from Massachusetts
American women poets
19th-century American women writers
People from Shirley, Massachusetts