Popular art in "Godey's Lady Book":an image of the American woman, 1830-1860: Historical New Hampshire/ by Dominic Ricciotti.
- Title:
- Popular art in "Godey's Lady Book":an image of the American woman, 1830-1860: Historical New Hampshire/ by Dominic Ricciotti.
- Author:
- Ricciotti, Dominic.
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1972.
- Physical Description:
- p.3-26.
- Source:
- Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1972 Vol.27, Issue 1 (Spring 1972) Historical New Hampshire
- Description:
- Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book comprised one of the most successful instruments of popular culture in nineteenth-century America. Published by Louis A. Godey it went to press in 1830; by 1860 it had a circulation of 150,000, which far surpassed any other magazine.The period of Godey's greatest social influence and of its widest reach in disseminating forms of popular art coincided with the democritization of art in the United states. The success and continuity of the magazine was due in large part to the partnership between Godey and editor Sarah Josepha Hale. Hale assumed editorship in 1837, her goal was to elevate the social and intellectual position of the American woman.Godey's' promoted woman as the arbiter of taste and patron of arts. It set the tone for many Victorian interiors. Its ideas of the pure and beautiful implied repression of most emotions except grief for a husband or child, but even its iconography of mourning was restrained. Although boasting of Americanism, 'Godey's' derived its style from British gift books and annuals Reproduces 13 illustrations, clustering around 1849, which portray the American woman "as the faithful wife, devoted mother, constant companion; the embodiment of virtue; and a purveyor of established culture."
- Subjects:
- Godey's Lady's Book. , Women's periodicals.
- Organizations:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Periodicals History.
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