It was a novel enterprise at the time, and few thought it would outlive the first year of its. The circulation, largely due to its popular colored fashion plates, increased to 150,000 a month. Sarah josepha hale was longtime editor of godeys ladys book. Under the editorship of sarah josepha hale, godeys ladys book 18301898 became one of the most influential u. Godeys ladys book welcome to one of the most popular. During the first six years of its existence, it included mainly articles clipped from british womens magazines and hand.
Godeys ladys book, american publication that, from 1830 to 1898, pioneered a format still employed by magazines devoted to womens. Including 8 plates in full color dover fashion and costumes by stella blum jul 1, 1985 4. With the ruefulness implicit in her title, but also with honesty and a bitchy bonhomie that seldom adorn such sunset sagas, bette davis pictures herself as mother goddam, a tamable shrew who never found her petruchio. Notes on some pages, the text is cut off because it runs into the binding of the book. Godeys ladys book history resources university of texas at tyler. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the civil war. In 1836 godey purchased the bostonbased american ladies magazine which he merged with his own publication. Godeys ladys book, 18301898 cleveland museum of art. In 1830, a magazine of elegant literature was cast, doubtingly, upon the uncertain stream of public favorits name the ladys book and louis a. Godey, a publisher and former newspaper editor, established his magazine in 1830 in philadelphia, pennsylvania. Together with its rivals grahams magazine, petersons and a host of other lesser known efforts, the ladys magazine begun by louis a. Godey, godeys ladys book, was one of the most popular and longlived womens magazines. The first successful womens magazine and most widely.
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