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Godey’s Lady’s Book

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  • Title: Godey’s Lady’s Book
  • Date: 14 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01329
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 14 December 1857: 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: Thara Michaelis Cassandra Jannel Simms Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "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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GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK

GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK,1 for January, abounds with matter, both pictorial and literary, interesting to the fair sex. It appears to be the ambition of Mr. Godey, not only to distance all other publishers of ladies’ magazines, but to surpass in each successive publication the attractions and merits of the previous; and by a strict adherence to this programme, he has rendered the Lady’s Book a periodical which no woman of fashion can afford to dispense with.

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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