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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Godey's Lady's Book
(1830–98), monthly miscellany founded at Philadelphia by Louis Antoine Godey (1804–78). Sarah J. Hale, the editor from 1837 to 1877, exerted an important influence on fashions and manners, for the magazine was considered a criterion of taste. Among the articles and pictures of fashions were included stories and other contributions from Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Poe, W. G. Simms, and Paulding, although most of the writers were of a far lower caliber, conforming to the sentimental, moral, and ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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