New Hampshire's Sarah Josepha Hale: A Renaissance Woman Of Her Time

New Hampshire's own Sarah Josepha Hale was a remarkable woman of the 19th century. She was a champion of women's rights to work and education long before Seneca Falls. She also served as America's first successful female literary editor and the godmother of a national Thanksgiving holiday. She also wrote Mary Had A Little Lamb.

Connecticut author Melanie Kirkpatrick is out with a new biography of Hale called "Lady Editor, Sarah Josepha Hale And The Making Of The Modern American Woman." Kirkpatrick is a former deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal's Editorial page and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. She joins us to tell us more about Hale and her legacy in her time, and in 2021.