Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer and an influential editor, she's the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb", the English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century of which nationality origin?
Mary Had a Little Lamb "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622.
Maurice (Shelley) "Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot" is a children's story by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley. Written in 1820 for Laurette Tighe, a daughter of her friends Margaret King and George William Tighe, Mary Shelley tried to have it published by her father, William Godwin, but he refused. The text was lost until 1997, when a manuscript copy was discovered in Italy.