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Godeys ladys book was a successful magazine in precivil war america. Her work in historic preservation has stood the test of time, as both sites are still. Its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860. Godey s lady book and magazine, volume cxiii, from july to december, 1886. Fashion paper dolls from godey s lady s book 18401884 fully intact 1977. In the first place it will attract attention from its diminutive, fairylike size, and with the same ease with which it can be carried, an important matter to a seamstress or dressmaker. In 1837, she became the editor of the godeys ladys book. See more ideas about ebook pdf, self improvement and pdf. Godey, a publisher and former newspaper editor, established his magazine in 1830 in philadelphia, pennsylvania. After this strange examination, the door was fully opened, and the doorkeeper said, you may enter.
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Subscribers from the cities of the northeast to the frontiers of the pacific northwest and the cotton plantations of the south enjoyed this monthly. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the civil war. The magazine pushed boundaries for content, including crusades for sex education. Publication date 1840 topics women, american literature, costume, arts publisher philadelphia, pa. One of the early commercial manufacturers of the palmer patent was madame demorest, a new york dressmaker. It is the publics own, just as we consider a book our own when we have bought it. Midnineteenthcentury publications such as godeys ladys book and catharine beechers treatise on domestic economy did which of the following. Godey s lady s book was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of america. Womens suffrage proposed godeys ladys book document h. American libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library open library featured. Godeys ladys book knownothings lowell system machine tools nativism p.
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