About Sarah Marshall Hayden
Lived 1825 – 1899 (aged 73–74). Sarah Marshall Hayden was a writer and novelist.
Sarah Marshall Hayden ( – ) was an American author. She was the first female novelist from Illinois.
Sarah Marshall Hayden was born on in Shawneetown, Illinois, the daughter of John Marshall, lawyer and member of the Illinois General Assembly. His house was recreated as the John Marshall House Museum.
She was educated at Edgewood Seminary in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. In 1843 she married Judge John James Hayden.
In 1901, John Hayden published a manuscript of a novel she wrote forty years earlier, Mr. Langdon's Mistake. Sarah Hayden also wrote poems, short stories, and articles for numerous publications, including the poem "Going Home", on the death of her son killed in action during the American Civil War.
Sarah Marshall Hayden died on 19 November 1899 in Washington, D.C..
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Who was Sarah Marshall Hayden?
first woman novelist in Illinois
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Sarah Marshall Hayden was born in 1825 in Old Shawneetown.
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Sarah Marshall Hayden died in 1899 in Washington, D.C..
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Sarah Marshall Hayden was a writer and novelist.
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