Godey's Lady's Book
Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was a United States magazine which was published in Philadelphia. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War. Its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860. In the 1860s Godey's considered itself the "queen of monthlies".
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The ascendance of Godey's Lady's Book, Catharine Beecher, and the "Cult of True Womanhood" was an important facet of women's culture in the mid-1800s.
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- Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 - Various
- Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 - Various
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