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Excerpt from Selections From the Writings of Mrs. Sarah Hall, Author of Conversations on the Bible: With a Memoir of Her Life While she lived, it was her happiness thus to please and edify, entwining entertainment with instruction, the flowers of literature with the ever green of piety. In the memory of her friends, this is her wreath of honour, formed by her own hands. Among the gifted women of America she is surely entitled to appear crowned with her own appropriate wreath. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Sarah Hall was born on October 30, 1761, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; the daughter of the Reverend John Ewing, and of Hannah (Sergeant) Ewing. At the time of her birth, her father was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and a tutor in the College of Philadelphia; later he was provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
Sarah's education was mainly acquired at home, where her scholarly father made it “his custom to converse in the most familiar manner, upon serious and instructive topics. His fireside, while it was the scene of hospitality and cheerfulness, was always enlivened with literary and scientific discussion. ” Sarah gained “a critical acquaintance with the principles of grammar, and extensive knowledge of the ancient classics, by hearing her brothers recite their Latin and Greek lessons, to their father, and by listening to the conversation of learned men, who frequented his house”. She was also “much addicted to the study of astronomy” and on the whole a notable bluestocking.
During 1782-1790 Sarah Hall lived on a farm beside the Susquehanna in Octorara, Cecil County, Maryland. About 1790 her husband removed with his family to Philadelphia, where he later became secretary of the Pennsylvania land office and subsequently, in 1799-1801, United States marshal for the district of Pennsylvania. He then engaged in business, not too successfully, and with his family went to Lamberton, New Jersey, to live, but in 1805 returned to Maryland and in 1811 to Philadelphia, which thereafter was Mrs. Hall’s home. There John Hall died in 1826.
Although she was the mother of ten children, Mrs. Hall was a student of current as well as classical literature. From the time she was twenty-eight or twenty-nine, it is said, she remained in her study at night for hours after her family had retired, reading and writing. When Joseph Dennie established the Port Folio in 1801 she was among the selected group of its contributors - the only other woman in the charmed circle being Mrs. Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson. At that time “to write for the Port Folio was considered no small honor”. During the entire existence of that periodical Mrs. Hall continued to contribute from time to time. In the issue for April 1815 her article ascribing Waverley to Walter Scott was reluctantly published, with a long disclaimer by the editor, who declared the novel displayed a style that was “juvenile, crude and incorrect, compared to the acknowledged productions of Mr. Scott”.
The following year the Port Folio passed into the possession of her son Harrison Hall, and from that time until its demise in 1827 was edited by her son John Elihu Hall. Two other sons, James Hall and Thomas Mifflin Hall, were contributors. All of Mrs. Hall’s writings appeared either anonymously, or over such names as “Constantia” or “Florepha. ” Some of her essays, such as “On Duelling, ” “On Female Education, ” and “Defence of American Women, ” together with extracts from her letters, were published by Harrison Hall in 1833, in a volume entitled Selections from the Writings of Mrs. Sarah Hall, Author of Conversations on the Bible. She died in Philadelphia in her seventieth year and was buried in the burial ground of the Third Presbyterian Church, in that city.
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Sarah Hall had a clear, easy style, and displayed remarkable ability in controversy.
In 1782 Sarah Ewing married John Hall, the son of a wealthy Maryland planter.
