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The most popular women's periodical of its day, with stories, poems, fashion, illustrations and music.
Additional Information:
Godey's Lady's Book was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine containing extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. Also includes hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts and, chromolithographs.
Coverage: 1830-1898 - No Longer Updated
Vendor: Accessible Archives
Producer: Accessible Archives
Interlibrary Loan Type: Not Permitted
Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited simultaneous users