Godey's
Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 51, July-December, 1855
Acorn
Pattern for Boy's Blouse (Illustrated)
268
A Day at an Arsenal (Illustrated)
32
A
French Woman at Home
373
A
Golden Law
142
A
Lament [poem]
566
A
Letter to a Servant [on the nature of duty]
147
Alleen's
Grave, by Julia Avery [poem]
159
Algerine
Bracelet (Illustrated)
362
A
New Holiday [anniversary of adoption of Constitution]
84
Animal
and Vegetable Physiology, by Harland
Coultas (Illustrated) 341,
412, 527
Anna;
or, Cottage Devotion, by Virginia De
Forrest (Illustrated) [fiction]
205
Annie
Reid, by Ada Grey [fiction]
496
Anecdotes
of the Elephant
300
A
Reply, by May Humboldt [poem]
158
A
Retrospect, by Ebenezer Allen [poem]
510
A
Roman Lady's Toilet
54
A
Royal Household Roll [1292-1293]
232
A
School of Life
381
Aspiration
570
Aunt
Tabitha's Fireside, by Edith Woodley
[fiction]
51
Autumn
Days, by Lottie Linwood [poem]
350
Avarice
[poem]
373
A
Word to Teachers
83
Baby
Shows
570
Band
for Chemise (Illustrated)
362, 450
Be
Still, Proud Heart, by William Phillips
[poem]
258
Bed
Furniture
189
Bed
Linen
285
Better
Than Gold, by Mrs. Mary A. Denison
[fiction]
233
Blind
Minnie, by Calla Elm [fiction]
210, 301
Bonnets
(Illustrated)
355, 451
Book-Markers
(Illustrated) [Forsake me not Lord,
God is our Refuge]
459
Border
for Side of Braided Toilet Cushion (Illustrated)
551
Braided
Borders for a Handkerchief, Basque Waist Apron, or Child's
(Illustrated)
385
Braiding
Pattern for Summer Blouse (Illustrated)
7
Braiding
Pattern (Illustrated)
357
Broderie
Anglaise (Illustrated)
360, 452
Butterfly
Watch-Hook (Illustrated)
394, 455
Capes
(Illustrated)
163, 255, 452
Caps
(Illustrated)
67, 163, 165, 260, 296, 451, 544
Carrie
Lee, by J. S. Freligh [poem]
351
Centre-Table
Gossip
The Linen Closet
No. 1; Household Songs; Obstinate Children;
How
to Have Good Servants
94
Bed Furniture [mattresses, pillows]
189
Bed Linen; Letter from Brownsville, TX; Clippings of
Fashion
[gold embroideries, riding habits, silk]
285
Sundries—Marseilles quilts, white counterpanes, white English
dimity spreads, furniture chintz covers, patch
blankets; Adamissa, cat
clocks, morning visits from gentlemen, mosaic
jewelry passe, not anti-novel, keeping ants out of plants, a cement
which is colorless and transparent, value of cameos
381
Clippings of Fashion Items—French riding habits, mourning-dress,
coral jewelry, silk boots and slippers, reason for cost
of real
Brussels lace, carving
poultry, definition of "aesthetic,"
home peace 477
"The Night Watch" by Mrs.
Bradley [poem]; Aspiration by Mrs.
Manners; necklaces; baby shows; advice to a
schoolgirl;
sweetmeat jars; origin of cork
569
Child's
Bib (Illustrated)
172
Child's
Frock Body in Braiding (Illustrated)
393, 455
Charades
in Action (Illustrated)
Co-Ward
124
Birth-Day
328
Chemisettes
(Illustrated)
163, 259
Christmas
and its Customs, by Caroline A. White [mostly
English]
517
CLOAKS,
MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
Le Bijou, from Brodie (Illustrated)
100
"Le Caprice," from Brodie
(Illustrated)
484
Mantle (Illustrated)
161
The Alma, from Brodie (Illustrated)
391
The Arctic, and the Alice Maud (Illustrated)
487, 572
The Campan and the Felix (Illustrated)
389
The Estramadura, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
390
The Flora, from Brodie (Illustrated)
5
The Mary Stuart, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
485
The Montebello, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
4
The Rosaline, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
199
The Raglan, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
293
The Victoria and the Gitana (Illustrated)
388
Clippings
of Fashion Gossip
386
Collars
(Illustrated)
6, 67, 73, 196, 197, 263, 264, 294, 356, 392, 454, 544
Contentment,
by Blanche Bennairde
[poem]
61
Contributions
to Fancy Fairs (Illustrated) [cotton-box
in glass-work,
bookmarker, pen-wiper, pin cushion]
167
Coraco
Eugenie (Illustrated)
65
Corners
for Pocket-Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)
260, 265, 268, 360, 460, 542, 549,
Cottage
in the Italian Style (Illustrated)
490, 552
Couvrett
for Prie-Dieu Chair (Illustrated) [netting]
263
Cover
for a Shaving-Book (Illustrated),
200, 264
Crochet
Mat (Illustrated)
171
Crochet
Gauntlet Cuff (Illustrated)
455
Crochet
Pattern for a Purse (Illustrated)
454
Crochet
Lace and Inserting for Undersleeves (Illustrated)
268
Cromwell's
Last Interview with His Favorite Daughter (Illustrated)
312
Curiosities,
by Ina [poem]
448
Curiosities
of the Vegetable Kingdom, by Harland
Coultas (Illustrated)
12
Mimosa
137
Moving Plant of British India
224
Dates,
by Martin Doyle [as in time]
111
Description
of Dresses Worn at the Late Presentation to the Queen of
Directions
for Aiding Persons to Escape from Premises on Fire
187
D'Oyley
in Square Crochet (Illustrated)
170
Doctor
Clarke--A Sketch from Life, by Mrs. S. C.
Hall, of London
American doctor]
242
Doll
Baby's Collar (Illustrated)
263
Economical
Furnishing (Illustrated) [homemade
wardrobe with plans]
537
Editors'
Table
81, 177, 273, 369, 465, 557
Eleanora,
Daughter of Edward II
128
Ella's
Confession, by Kate Harrington [poem]
335
Ellen
Goodwin; or, a Sense of Duty, by Virginia
De Forrest (Illustrated)
[fiction]
535
Ellen
Moore of Violet Valley, by C. E. C.
[poem]
447
Embroidery,
Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)
7, 68, 76, 101, 102, 103, 168, 198, 265, 267,
268,
354, 362, 364, 385, 394, 450, 458, 459, 544, 548, 550, 554
Embroidered
Toilet Cushion in Buttonhole and Satin-Stitch (Illustrated)
292
Embroidered
Collar Pattern (Illustrated)
6, 294
Embroideries
for an Infant's Christening Dress (Illustrated)
102
Embroidery
for a Child's Basque (Illustrated)
102
Embroidery
for the Skirt of a Basque (Illustrated)
385
Enigmas
64, 160, 258, 352, 448, 540
Eugenie
Bracelets (Illustrated)
264
Excerpts
82
Fall
Fashions for Children's Dresses (Illustrated)
296
Fame
411
Fashion
Plates, for Decorating Parlor Windows (Illustrated)
289, 361, 481
Fashions
Children's Clothing; Tissue Shawls; Guipure Mantles;
Bonnets
95
Walking Dress; Half-Mourning Dress; Mourning
[step-mother,
walking-dress, evening-dress, step-daughter]; pineapple
ribbons; skirts; underskirts; hoops; flounces;
fichu, bretelle or berthe; parasols
191
Dinner dress; child's dress; pink cashmere dress;
baby's dress; fall straw
bonnets; dress trimmings; source of fashion
287
Walking Dress; Evening-Dress; Juvenile Fashions;
Department
handkerchiefs; new styles of bodies, collars, petticoats; bonnets; thick
taffeta dresses; bretelles; dresses
382
Carriage Dress; Dress and Cloak; New Cloaks and
Mantles; fabrics for
Walking-Dresses; Bell-Shaped Sleeves; Undersleeves, black velvet
ribbon trimming, descriptions of
Home dress; child's dress; new mantles; shawls;
winter bonnets;
blonde bonnets; brown dresses; walking dresses
571
Fashions
for Furs (Illustrated) [Victorine,
muff, cuffs]
486
Fashionable
Novelties in Work and Dress (Illustrated) [white
basquine,
and chenille basquine, headdresses, kid shoes,
shoe rosettes]
358
Females—Is
the Term Proper to Designate Women?
468
Fish-Cloth
(Illustrated) [crochet]
69
Florence
Emerson; or, the Young Widow, by Virginia
de Forrest
(Illustrated)
Flouncing
for Undersleeves (Illustrated)
103, 266, 457, 547, 548
Flouncing
for a Sleeve (Illustrated)
292, 545
Flouncing
for an Infant's Skirt (Illustrated)
364
Flouncing
for a Marseilles Basque (Illustrated)
460
For
My Daughter's Album [poem]
13
Franklin
Female College, Holly Springs, Miss.
559
French
Work-Basket (Illustrated)
164
From
Home Again [poem]
256
Godey's
Arm-Chair
Spindles in Egypt; How to Build a Happy
Home;
How to Propose;
German homes; Tracing an Embroidery
Pattern onto Cloth; Gowns
of the Queen of England
and the Empress of France
88
Self-Sealing Cans; Some Advice to Ladies Purchasing Carpet;
Independence Hall; The Schuylkill Boats; A New Anaesthetic—Ice
and Salt; New Music; Gathering Flowers
for Perfume; Prices of
Arthur's Self-Sealing Cans
and Jars; To Preserve a Bouquet; Getting
Into Society;
Floating in Water; How the Rose Became Red;
Take White Spots Out of Furniture
182
Recipe for Soap; City Nuisances—Smoking Cigars in the Street
(Illustrated); List of New Music; Recipe for Keeping Hair from
Falling Out; Lace at the Paris Exhibition; Russian Salve;
Touching
Hat and Bowing on the Street
281
City Annoyances No. 2—The Omnibus Nuisance (Illustrated);
List
of New Music; the Genoa Crucifix; Poems by Augustus
Duganne; A Wife that Will Help You; Washing
with Soap; A Bride's Dress; Rachel Dress;
Rachel Cloak; Arthur's
Patent Self-Sealing Cans; Cure
for Rattlesnake Bite; Ladies' Trains;
Reverence Old
Age; A Reception for a Bride at the Tuilleries;
Epigrams;
Duties of an Editor; Dresses Worn at the Late Reception
by the Queen of England; Tomato Preserves; To
Preserve Fruits
Without Sugar or Vinegar
375
Keeping Baby Quiet with Molasses and Feathers; Recipe for
Hair
Rooms; The Ladies of the Press; Pronouncing
Cards
471
Another Advantage of the Daguerreotype; List of New Music;
Cure
for Hydrophobia
564
Godey's
Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)
Lesson XX. Perspective
Drawing (Continued)
218
Lesson XXI. Perspective
Drawing (Continued)
417
Godey's
Lady's Book [poem]
90
Godey's
Latest Paris Fashions for Crochet Purses (Illustrated)
Good
Northern Schools
478
Grover,
Baker & Co.'s Sewing-Machines (Illustrated)
185
Guipure
Design for Undersleeves (Illustrated)
547
Half
of a Braided Toilet Cushion (Illustrated)
551
Handkerchief
Border (Illustrated)
7, 357, 459
Hanging
Flower-Vase (Illustrated)
267
Harper
Establishment and Female Employment
467
Hattie,
by Eve Abrams
317
Health
and Happiness, by Virginia de Forrest
(Illustrated) [fiction]
399
Hints
about Marriage
179
Hints
for the Ladies
Natural "cosmetics"
108
Colors according to complexions
217
Holly
Watch-Hook (Illustrated)
104, 164
Home
Sketches. My Early Friend; or,
Personal Vanity, by Mary
Morton
[fiction]
346
Home
Song [poem]
94
Honiton
Crochet Collar (Illustrated)
73
Honiton
Edge (Illustrated)
458
How
the Empress Eugenie Wears Her Bonnet
185
How
to Treat the Hair
419
Household
Songs
94
I
Am Far From Thee, by Cortez [poem]
63
I
Went to Gather Flowers, by Mrs. S. M.
Combes [poem]
257
Ice-Houses
138
Impromptu
[poem]
255
Infant's
Cap (Illustrated)
290
Infant's
Crochet Cap (Illustrated)
165
Infant's
Frock in Knitting (Illustrated)
71
Invocation,
by Edgar Gordon
[poem]
160
Initial
Letters and Names (Illustrated)
66, 166, 196, 359, 393, 460
Irish
Blunders, by Kate Harrington [fiction]
247
I'se
Got No Mammy Now, by Mrs. M. A. Denison
[fiction]
134
Isle
of Wight
382
Jeanie
Douglass, by Epsey Jones [fiction]
249
Knitted
Basket (Illustrated)
73
Knitted
Mitten and Bracelet (Illustrated)
169
Lace
and Lace-Making (Illustrated)
330
Lady's
Dress with Diagrams (Illustrated)
449
Last
Hours of a Single Gentleman
53
Leon,
by Beata [poem]
159
Life
of Isabella I, Queen of Spain, by Pauline
Forsyth 17, 113, 227, 313, 408,
506
Life
is a Beautiful Night [poem]
352
Lines
inscribed to Mrs. J. Russel, on the Death of an only Son, by
Combes
[poem]
255
Lines
on a Silken Hat [poem]
257
Lines
on the Death of my Wife, Mrs. Adeline J. Williams, by Avery W.
Williams
[poem]
540
Lines
to an Absent One, by N. W. Bridge
[poem]
446
Lines
Written by Don Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil [poem]
351
Literary
Ladies [Amelia Opie, Caroline Southey, Mrs. Sarah Coleridge,
Mary Russell Mitford, Miss Ferrier, Charlotte Bronte
273
Literary
Notices
Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year
1852; The
Brother's
and Sister's Offering; An American Among the
Howard Grey: A Story for Boys;
Robert Graham:
for the People in Suburb and Country; The
Tricolored Sketches in Paris During
the Years 1851-2-3; Foster's
First Principles of
Patent Hat; Surgical
Reports and Miscellaneous Papers on Medical
Subjects;
Ellen Norbury, or, The Adventures of an Orphan;
New Stories; The Chemistry of Common Life; History
of Turkey;
Kenneth, or, The Rear Guard of the
Keeper; The Life of Sam Houston;
Vegetable Gardener's Companion; Temptation,
or, the Unknown
Heiress; The Ins and Outs of
Lescure; Adelaide
Exhibition
A
Manual of Ancient History; Leaves from a Family
and Times of the Chief Justices of the
States; Percival Harford; The
Sister Rose; The
Thoughts,
Presbyterian
Quarterly Review; Le Cure Manque; A Journey Through
the
Chinese Empire; History for Boys; Literary and Historical
Miscellanies; Star Papers, or Experiences of Art and
Southern Quarterly Review; Bell Smith Abroad;
Adventures of Captain Priest; Peeps From a
A
Friendly Book for Young Mothers;
of Modern Life;
Woodsworth's
Knowledge; The Wonderful
and Amusing Doings, by Sea and Land,
of Oscar
Book;
The Controversy Between Senator Brooks and Archbishop
Hughes; Astronography, or Astronomical Geography;
or Recollections of Maternal Influence; Peg
Christie Johnstone
179
The History of Napoleon Bonaparte; Speeches and Addresses by
Henry W. Hilliard; Mountains and Mole-Hills; Letters to the
Rev. John Hughes; Constance Herbert:
A Novel;
Metrical
Romance; Cornell's Intermediate
Empire; The Arabian Nights' Entertainments; Lights and Shadows of
English Life; The Old
Woman's Life
Which—
Man; The Winkles, or the Merry Monomaniacs; The Watchman;
Cone Cut Corners: The
Experiences of a Conservative Family in
Fanatical Times; Ellie, or the Human Comedy
278
The Six Days of Creation; Land, Labor, and Gold; The Note-Book
an English Opium-Eater; Ariel and Other Poems; Tight
Times, or The
Diamond Cross and Other Tales; Art-Hints:
and Painting; Waikna, or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore; Cleve
Hall; A Visit to the Camp
Words and
The Shadow of Fate
374
The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams; The American Journal of
Evenings with the Prophets; Mitchell's New
the United States and Canada;
Chuzzlewit; Trial and Triumph;
Voice to America; Habits and Men; History of the Council of Trent;
A Memoir
It Was and Is; The Rabbit Fancier; Alie, or, The Old West Room; The
Confessions of a Pretty Woman; The Jealous
Books for the Nursery
469
Bits of Blarney; The Exhibition Speaker; Barnaby
Rudge; Calderon the
Courtier; The Deserted Wife; The Old Homestead;
from the Book of Nature; A Visit to India,
Year 1853; The Araucanians;
Father's House;
The
Classical Library; The Newcomes; The Elder
Double Error; The Life of the Right
Guy Rivers; Richard Hurdis;
Hours' School a Day;
Sick Children;
Gallery;
The Amaranth; The Garland, or Token of Friendship; The
or Souvenir of Friendship
560
Little
Ones, by Jenny Marsh [poem]
256
Live
and Learn (Illustrated) [setting
tea-things, two loops to your towels,
wet and dry]
47
Living
in Vain, by Marion Harland [fiction]
14
Mamma's
Work-Basket (Illustrated)
362
Manufacture
of Needles (Illustrated)
491
Masculine
Independence
156
Memories,
by H. D. L. W. [Leaf
First—Childhood]
154
Menagere,
in Embroidered Netting (Illustrated)
361
Minoona,
by H. Coggins [poem]