Martha J. Lamb

Martha J. Lamb
Born August 13, 1829
Plainfield, Massachusetts
Died January 2, 1893

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Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb (August 13, 1829 – January 2, 1893)[1] was a United States author, editor and historian.

Biography

She was born in Plainfield, Massachusetts, to Arvin Nash and Lucinda Vinton. Educated at the Williston Seminary in Easthampton and Northampton High School. She published her first article, "A Visit to My Mother's Birthplace," in a local newspaper, Hampshire Gazette. On September 8, 1852, she married Charles A. Lamb. They moved to Chicago in 1857 and Martha became involved in charity work. With Jane C. Hoge, she helped found the Home for the Friendless and the Half-Orphan Asylum. In 1863 she was secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission Fair.[2]

Her marriage ended by divorce around 1866, and she took her literary talents to New York City, where, in 1883 she purchased The Magazine of American History and became its editor.[3] She was elected to membership in fifteen historical and learned societies in the United States and Europe.[4]

Literary career

She wrote about 50 shorter stories, and more than 100 historical and other papers in magazines.[4]

Notes

  1. A. Everett Peterson (1933). "Lamb, Martha Joanna Reade Nash". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  2.  Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Lamb, Martha Joan Reade Nash". Encyclopedia Americana.
  3. Van Pelt, Daniel, "Mrs. Martha J. Lamb" [obituary], in Magazine of American History, Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 1893), pp. 126-130.
  4. 1 2  Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Lamb, Martha Joanna Reade Nash". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  5. "Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 0056 Issue 334 (March 1878)". Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  6. 1 2 Robert L. Gale (1999). "Lamb, Martha Joanna R. N.". American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press.
  7.  Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Lamb, Martha Joanna Reade Nash". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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