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It was also known as godeys magazine, using that name exclusively in its last few years. Its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860. Godeys ladys book victorian ephemera lot 4 handtinted fashion plates 18491860s, 1 complete magazine 1890 victorian fashion, lifestyle. Sarah josepha hale was the first woman editor in america and it was she who made godeys ladys book the forerunner of the modern womens magazines. Immediately download the godeys ladys book summary, chapterbychapter analysis, book notes, essays, quotes, character descriptions, lesson plans, and more everything you need for studying or teaching godeys ladys book.
During the first six years of its existence, it included mainly articles clipped from british womens magazines. This fully searchable and browsable online archive contains the full run of godey s lady s book and includes all of its color plates. Godeys is best known for the handtinted fashion plate, which appears at the start of each issue and provides a record of the progression of womens dress. This manual contains all the latest fashion information, including children s and bridal fashions. Godeys ladys book, american publication that, from 1830 to 1898, pioneered a format still employed by magazines devoted to womens. The london ladys magazine contained stories, poetry, historical pieces, book notices, and such embellishments as plates, costume designs and patterns. Hale, godey s was among the first and most successful american women s magazines. Godey, godeys ladys book, was one of the most popular and longlived womens magazines.
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Godeys ladys book was the chief financial success among the philadelphia magazines, and, after the port folio a political and literary journalmagazine, enlisted the services of the greatest number of the best writers. Godeys 1850 godeys ladys book,rare book sale, 1850 ladys book. The circulation, largely due to its popular colored fashion plates, increased to 150,000 a month. Godeys ladys book 1866 louisa may alcott is my passion. Today i am sharing the patchwork and quilting patterns presented to their subscribers that year. One of hales early observations, before she joined with godey, concerned her belief that much of what men had called an inferiority of womens minds was the result of what women were taught to do. On some pages, the text is cut off because it runs into the book s binding. Godey, featuring ample full color and blackandwhite plates horstexte, as well as fashion, etiquette advice, patterns, house plans, crafts, household hints, health advice, periodicals on the united states social life and customs, short stories, poetry, and more. In addition to extensive 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. Godeys ladys book and magazine, was a united states magazine which was published in philadelphia.
Godeys ladys book simple english wikipedia, the free. Encyclopedia of greater philadelphia godeys ladys book. Each monthly issue has a colored plate from an ongoing series labeled godeys unrivaled colored fashions that showcase contemporary womens styles, an embroidery pattern that is. It was published in philadelphia, pennsylvania by louis antoine godey.
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