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Sarah Ewing Hall
Born	Sarah Ewing  1761  Philadelphia
Died	1830  (aged 68–69)
Occupation	Essayist, writer
Parent(s)	John Ewing

Sarah Ewing Hall (October 30, 1761 – April 8, 1830) was an American educator, poet, and essayist of Christian literature.

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of the Reverend John Ewing, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and Hannah (Sergeant) Ewing. She was taught at home by her father and by his learned guests' instructive dialogues. Her favorite subject was astronomy, where her father was an expert. She also gained vast knowledge of Greek and Latin when listening to her brothers recite.

In 1782, she married John Hall, who was the son of a wealthy Maryland planter, and they had eleven children, residing in relative solitude on his farm in Maryland for the next eight years. In 1790 the family returned to Philadelphia where John Hall served as secretary of the Pennsylvania land office and a U.S. marshal from 1799 to 1801.

In 1805 they moved to New Jersey, but later financial changes forced them to move back to Maryland, from where they returned to Philadelphia in 1811.

Two of her sons were John Elihu Hall and James Hall, both of whom were prominent publishers and writers.

She died in Philadelphia in 1830 and was buried in the Third Presbyterian Church burial ground.

Writing career

Hall was an essayist and wrote for Joseph Dennie's Port Folio, a Philadelphia Federalist magazine. In 1818 shw wrote Conversations on the Bible, which became her most notable work.

in 1833, her essays and letters were compiled and published as Mrs. Sarah Hall, Author of Conversations on the Bible.

Bibliography

• Conversations on the Bible (1818)
• Mrs. Sarah Hall, Author of Conversations on the Bible (1833)

References

1. ^ "Dictionary of American Biography". Biography in Context. Gale. 1936. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
2. ^ Rosenberg, Ruth (2000). "Hall, Sarah Ewing (1761-1830), essayist". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1600693. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
3. ^ Taylor, Marion Ann; Weir, Heather E. (2006). Let Her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-century Women Writing on the Women of Genesis. Baylor University Press. pp. 119–. ISBN 978-1-932792-53-9.
4. Groot, Christiana De; Taylor, Marion Ann (2007). Recovering Nineteenth-century Women Interpreters of the Bible. Society of Biblical Lit. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-1-58983-220-6.
5. Read, Thomas Buchanan (1855). The Female Poets of America: With Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of Their Writings (Public domain ed.). E.H. Butler. pp. 11–.

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