Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo
Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (1819-1848) was an American author and editor, born in Shirley, Massachusetts, to a Universalist family and active in Universalist literary circles from her teens. She edited the denominational gift annual The Rose of Sharon from 1840 until her death and served as an associate editor of the Universalist and Ladies' Repository in Boston from 1839 to 1842. Her books included the novel Ellen Clifford, a memoir of Julia H. Scott, and several popular volumes on the language of flowers. In 1846 she married the minister Amory Dwight Mayo; she died at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1848 at age twenty-nine, and her husband published a selection of her writings with a memoir the following year.
In the collection (3 works)
Ellen Clifford: Or the Genius of Reform (1839)
A reform novella by the twenty-year-old Sarah Edgarton, the future editor of the Ladies' Repository whose memorial volume is also in this collection. Fiction with a purpose — temperance, benevolence, the redeeming power of goodness — from the first generation of Universalist women who made literature their pulpit.
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The Rose of Sharon : a religious souvenir (1840-) with Caroline Mehetabel Sawyer
The Universalist literary annual — the denomination's entry in the gift-book genre, issued yearly from 1840 into the 1850s with poems, tales, and essays by the movement's writers, edited first by Sarah Edgarton and later by Caroline Sawyer among others. Handsome, sentimental, and hugely popular as a New Year's gift, it was many households' main point of contact with Universalist literature. This volume represents the series in this collection.
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Selections from the Writings of Mrs. Sarah C. Edgarton Mayo, with a Memoir (1849) with Amory Dwight Mayo
Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo edited the Ladies' Repository — the Universalist women's magazine — and was the denomination's leading female literary voice when she died in 1848, at twenty-eight, within a year of her marriage. Her husband, the minister A. D. Mayo, gathered her essays, poems, and letters with a tender memoir. The volume preserves both a gifted writer cut off early and a picture of the literary culture Universalist women built for themselves in the 1840s.
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