From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879)   
   "American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated   
   magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book." (Wiki)   
      
   And   
   "Mary had a little lamb..."   
   which appears for the first time in her book _Poems for Our Children_ (1830)   
      
   And   
   _Northwood_ (1827), a novel about slavery. (She advocated repatriating   
   the slaves -- well, to Liberia, anyway.)   
      
   And   
   Cookbooks! (and Household Hints) _Mrs Hale's Receipts for the Million_   
   (1857)   
   "Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty Five Receipts, Facts,   
   Directions, Etc. in the Useful, Ornamental and Domestic Arts..."   
      
   Exhausting.   
      
   The language link seems quite insignificant by comparison.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)