Ladies' Magazine

The "Ladies' Magazine" was an early magazine for women published in Boston, Massachusetts. Also known as "Ladies Magazine and Literary Gazette" and , later as "American Ladies Magazine", it was designed to be American, and named to separate itself from the "Lady's Magazine" of London. The magazine was founded by Reverend John Lauris Blake, Episcopal minister and headmaster of the Cornhill School for Young Ladies, who desired to set a model for American womanhood. [ [http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/hale.html Godey's Lady's Book: Sarah Josepha Hale Biography ] ]

It is thought to have been the first magazine to be edited by a woman; from 1827 until 1836, its editor was Sarah Josepha Hale. [ Entrikin, Isabelle Webb, "Sarah Josepha Hale and godey's Lady's Book," Philadelphia, 1946 ]

In 1837 it merged with the "Lady's Book and Magazine" published in Philadelphia by Louis Antoine Godey and better known by its later name, "Godey's Lady's Book". Hale moved from Boston to Philadelphia to edit the new, combined magazine. [ Entrikin, Isabelle Webb, "Sarah Josepha Hale and godey's Lady's Book," Philadelphia, 1946 ]

Further reading

*Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines. (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1938-68.)

* Price, Kenneth M. and Susan Belasco Smith, eds. Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-century America. (Charlottesville, VA : University Press of Virginia, 1995.)

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