On this day, the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, published the book ‘Poems for our Children’, a collection of poems by Sarah Josepha Hale which included the famous nursery rhyme, ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’ (link). Hale was one of the first American woman novelists as well as being editor for forty years of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey’s Lady’s Book. She was also the driving force behind the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving. The authorship of the poem ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’, however, remains to this day a controversy as it was also claimed by a certain Mary Sawyer (link). The poem became the first audio recording in history when Thomas Edison recited it on his newly invented phonograph in 1877 to see if the machine actually worked.
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