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Poor Sarah, or, The Indian woman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, P. H. (Phoebe Hinsdale), 1783-1861, author.
- Series:
- Publications of the American Tract Society ; no. 128.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Standardized Title:
- Poor Sarah
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sunday school literature.
- Christian life.
- Piety.
- Indian women--Biography.
- Indian women.
- Indians of North America--Biography.
- Indians of North America.
- Older women--Biography.
- Older women.
- Death--Religious aspects.
- Death.
- Rogers, Sarah, -1817.
- Rogers, Sarah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (8 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- The American Tract Society, and sold at their depository; and by agents of the Society, its branches, and auxiliaries, in the principal cities and towns in the United States
- Notes:
- Cover title. At head of title: No. 128.
- Attributed to Phoebe H. Brown in "Sketch of the origin and character of the principal series of tracts of the American Tract Society" in American tract magazine (Nov., 1831). Sometimes attributed to Elias Boudinot, who translated "Poor Sarah" into Cherokee in 1833.
- "Poor Sarah" first appeared in the Religious intelligencer (New Haven) January 1-8, 1820. It was reprinted in the Boston recorder March 11, 1820, and was issued as a tract by several publishers during the same year.
- The American Tract Society was located at 144 Nassau St. from 1827 to 1832.
- Title vignette signed: P [i.e., Harlan Page?]. Caption to vignette is a quotation from p. 6.
- Variant states. One copy in hand has the following pieces printed on p. [2-3] of wrapper: "The tract 'Poor Sarah' remembered in death," "Influence of the tract 'Poor Sarah' on a numerous family," and "Tract 'Poor Sarah' blessed to a physician." Pages [2-3] of the wrapper of another copy are blank.
- Page [4] of wrapper, one copy in hand, numbered 10. Page [4] of wrapper of another copy bears the phrase, "12 pages" at its head.
- "Lines composed on hearing that Sarah was dead."--p. [4] of wrapper.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162598322
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