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[We have received Godey's Lady's Book]

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  • Title: [We have received Godey's Lady's Book]
  • Date: 16 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00893
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 16 July 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "[We have received Godey's Lady's Book]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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☞We have received Godey’s Lady’s Book1 for August. It is a capital number, full of things which will interest the dear creatures. The present number contains the most astonishing things to us bachelors. There are whole pages devoted to such occult subjects as “trimmings for an infant skirt,” “open under sleeves,” “embroidery for flannels,” etc., etc., which are highly interesting no doubt to the ladies, but which are enough to produce incipient insanity among the “great unposted.” Seriously speaking, however, the number is a good on in point of lively and piquant stories and capital engravings.

Notes:

1. Godey's Lady's Book, published by Louis A. Godey (1804–1878), was a women's and family magazine dedicated to literature, fashion, and culture. Between 1837 and 1877, it was edited by Sarah Josepha Hale. [back]

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