Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women EditorsOur Sister Editors is the first book length study of Sarah J. Hale's editorial career. From 1828 to 1836 Hale edited the Boston based Ladies' Magazine and then from 1837 to 1877 Philadelphia's Godey's Lady's Book, which on the eve of the Civil War was the most widely read magazine in the United States, boasting more than 150,000 subscribers. Hale reviewed thousands of books, regularly contributed her own fiction and poetry to her magazines, wrote