Selections from the Writings of Mrs. Sarah C. Edgarton Mayo, with a Memoir

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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