Godey's
Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 52, January-June, 1856
A Basquine (Illustrated)
255
A Carolina Woman of the Revolution [Susannah Smart, of Mecklenburg, NC]
213
A Child at Prayer, by John H. Bazley
[poem]
252
A Daughter's Love, by Blanche Bennairde
[poem]
61
A Day of Troubles, by Virginia De Forrest
(Illustrated) [fiction]
32
A Dirge, by N. W. Bridge [poem]
539
A Good Law [NY law that allows wife of drunkard or deserter to transact
business in her
own name, control her own earnings, and educate
her own children]
468
A Happy Marriage
444
A Lady Antiquary
560
A Lay of Loyalty, by Fausta
[poem]
254
Alphabet of Fancy Letters for Marking a Lady's Wardrobe (Illustrated)
A-N
298
O-Z
394
A-N
490
Ancestry, by Emily Herrmann [poem]
159
A Netted Tidy (Illustrated)
294
A New Heroine of the Crimea [Mrs. Duberly]
466
An Infant Boot (Illustrated)
266
Another Comet [discovered by Maria Mitchell]
372
A Picture of the Olden Time: Privy Purse Expenses of Charles II
239
Applique Cushion (Illustrated)
67
April Hours, by Mrs. J. H. Thomas [poem]
350
A Resolve, by J. L. Bryan, M. D. [poem]
253
A Vision of the Past, by Mrs. Harriet E.
Francis [poem]
351
Away with the Past, by Helen Smesdell
[poem]
447
Beauty of the Dead
382
Beauty out West, or, How Three Fashionable Young Ladies Spent a
Year in the
Wilderness, by Metta Victoria Fuller
[fiction—MN]
491
Be Gentle [with children]
345
Beckonings, by Willie E. Pabor [poem]
447
Bonnets (Illustrated)
192
Books Borrowed [poem]
186
Border for a Handkerchief (Illustrated)
105, 362
Borrowdale in a Flutter, by Debby Downright [borrowed issues of Godey's] 315
Braid Dinner Mat (Illustrated)
355
Braiding Pattern (Illustrated)
74, 197, 360, 545
Braidwork--Lady's Muff (Illustrated)
167
Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
362
Caps (Illustrated)
104, 164, 196, 452, 541
Centre-Table Gossip
91, 188, 285, 381, 477, 569
Charades in Action (Illustrated) [Cab-bage]
433
Chemisettes (Illustrated)
164, 542
Chemistry for the Young
Introduction
78
Definition of
analysis, importance of clean equipment
176
Lesson 1—A
mixture of sand and common salt being given;
to separate the two (Illustrated)
270
Lesson 1 continued
(Illustrated)
368
Lesson 1 continued
464
Lesson II—Method
of cleansing the apparatus employed
556
Child's Dress (Illustrated)
8
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)
289, 383, 481, 544
CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
La
Mignene and the Alexandrine (Illustrated)
389, 479
"Le
Gitana," from Brodie (Illustrated)
9
The
Adele and the Ionian (Illustrated)
293, 384, 479
The
Alboni, from Brodie (Illustrated)
200
The
Alma Escharpe, from Brodie (Illustrated)
297
The
Andalusian, from Brodie (Illustrated)
201
The
Escurial, from Brodie (Illustrated)
393
The
Guadiana, from Brodie (Illustrated)
485
The
Lucie and the Bijou (Illustrated)
292, 384
The
Morisco, from Brodie (Illustrated)
484
The
Poncho, from Brodie (Illustrated)
100
The
Zamora, from Brodie (Illustrated)
296
The
Zulima, from Brodie (Illustrated)
392
Collars (Illustrated)
102, 191, 361, 486, 488, 552
Colleges and Institutions for Young Women in the United States [Patapsco
Female Institute,
MD; Baltimore Female College, MD; Adelphi
College, MO;
Wesleyan Female College, OH; Bascom Female
Institute, AL; St.
Mary's Hall, NJ; Mystic Hall, MA]
467
Comfort for Dark Days [quotations on Fortune]
570
Comparable Female Anatomy [French, English, German—humor]
286
Convolvulus Flowers (Illustrated)
457
Convolvulus Wreath (Illustrated)
459
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated) 69, 171, 198,
358, 363, 385, 460, 543, 551
Cottage in the Venetian Style (Illustrated)
106, 172
Cousin Marion, by Virginia F. Townsend
[fiction]
33
Crochet Bonnet (Illustrated)
356
Crochet Purse (Illustrated)
455
Crochet Tidy (Illustrated)
72
Crochet Toilet Mat (Illustrated)
363
Crown of Cap (Illustrated)
105
"Dearest"--That was All, by Willie Edgar Pabor [poem]
252
Dear Mother, was it Right? by Alfred Burnett [poem]
253
Death
478
Design for a Brick House (Illustrated)
530
Despair [poem]
448
Diaphane Lamp Shade (Illustrated)
38, 147, 238, 341
Dreamings, by W. M. M. [poem]
212
Dusk, by W. Gilmore Simms [poem]
160
Editors' Table
A New Year
79
Godey's as a guide
for dress and an encourager of the needle arts
177
Miscellaneous
273
A Trip to China
369
English Travel
Journals
465
Poor
"literature" submitted to Godey's
557
Education in England
178
Embroidered Cap (Illustrated)
104, 196
Embroidered Collar in Imitation of Honiton
102
Embroidered Habit-Shirt (Illustrated)
261
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated),
10, 67, 72, 73, 97, 105, 162, 166, 171, 172,
261, 357, 358, 359, 360, 362, 364, 450, 460, 545, 547, 548, 549, 550
Embroidery Design for a Gentleman's Cravat (Illustrated)
551
Embroidery Pattern for an Infant's Cashmere Boot (Illustrated)
74
Enigmas
62, 160, 254, 352, 448, 540
Evening Voices, by Lillian [poem]
351
Expenses of a Young Lady at School in the 17th Century
123
Faded Flowers, by N. W. Bridge [poem]
22
Fancies of Home, by H. L. A. [poem]
447
Fashionable Colors for Gloves [includes English equivalents for some
French colors]
285
Fashions
Bride,
bridesmaid, guest at ceremony, guest at reception, ordinary
evening
headdress (Illustrated), black and
white, bonnets
(Illustrated)
93
Evening
dress, ribbons, collar and sleeve trimmed in black velvet
ribbon (Illustrated),
canezous, jackets, bonnets (Illustrated),
dress
trimmings, Pompadour dresses, fancy silk aprons for
young
ladies
191
Evening
dress, carriage or home dress, Pamela bonnet, walking
dress,
child's walking dress, children's clothing, two party
dresses
for 12-14 year old girls (too grown up for Godey's
taste),
Leghorn bonnets
287
Dinner
dress, morning dress suitable for bride, clothing for lad of
twelve;
dress for girl 8-10, mantles, fabrics for little girls' dresses,
girls'
walking dresses, flounced dresses, guipure mantles, straw
bonnet
383
Morning
dress, evening dress for wedding reception, child's dress,
mantillas, juvenile fashions, mantles, new spring dress fabrics,
basques,
bonnets
479
Dinner
dress, carriage dress, evening dress, summer bonnets,
headdresses, fichus, undersleeves, white canzous, morning caps,
pocket
handkerchiefs, lace jackets
571
Filigree Purse (Illustrated)
546
Finger-Rings (Illustrated)
Ancient
11
Early Christian,
Egyptian Signets; Shakespeare's Signet
107
Gimmal ring,
wedding rings in different countries and times
203
Flouncing
10, 73, 97, 263, 265, 360, 364, 456
Flower Vase. In Beads (Illustrated)
101, 165
Forget, by W. S. Gaffney [poem]
251
French Flowers and Lace
190
Furs, from Lasak & Son, 520 Broadway, New York (Illustrated)
68
Getting up a Club in Borrowdale, by Debby Downright [a Godey's Club]
233
Gentleman's Shaving Book (Illustrated)
453
Gift to the Maryland Hospital
468
Girls Should be Taught to Swim
559
Godey's Arm-Chair
A Late
Fashionable Wedding; Excerpt from a Letter from
Mississippi; Naked Legged Children; Ivory Handle Cutlery
(Illustrated),
Nutcracker, Nut Picks, and Plate Warmer
(Illustrated);
Gentleman's Collars and Wristbands; When to Send
Invitations to a Ball or Large Party; Double Entendre
88
Pearl
Card Cases; Lines on Slander; Words for Some Lazy Husbands
in This
Country; Dress of Her Majesty of France, Worn at the
Closing
of the Grand Show in Paris; Hair Dye; List of New Music;
Ball
Dress for English Bride
185
Temperance
Society in Rusk, Texas; Latest style of Visiting Card
(Illustrated);
Articles for Domestic Use—Bird Cages, Wheel
Pattern
Knife Sharpener, Fluting Scissors, Cheese Scoop, Knives,
Moulds,
Corkscrew (Illustrated)
283
Caudle
Parties; College Temple at Newnan, GA; Take Care of
Your French; Dresses Worn at a Late "Drawing-Room" Held by
the
Queen of England; Notions of
Beauty; Left-Handed Side
Saddles; List of New Music; Articles for Domestic Use—Rattan
or Cane
Ware Chairs and Sofas (Illustrated)
377
How to
Work Patterns in Imitation of Honiton Lace; List of New
Music;
The Empress's Cradle; Recipe for Bavarian Cream; New
Readings of Old Proverbs; How to Get Rid of Large Black Ants;
For
Bleaching Cotton; Preventing Odor when Cooking Codfish;
Pudding
a la Godey; Inflatable Skirt Hoops; How to Use Copying
paper; Arthur's Self-Sealing Cans; Corn Cake Recipe (Humorous);
Veils
Worn Over Face in Street
473
Need
food served on trains; List of New Music; Compliment from
Nashville that Godey's clothes wearable; Prices of Moire Antique,
Lace,
and Imitation Lace
565
Godey's Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)
Lesson XXII.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
119
Lesson XXIII.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
318
Lesson XXIV.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
507
Good and Bad Huswifery, by Thomas Tusser [1557, poem]
286
Half of Collar, worked with colored embroidery cottons
between 168 and 169
Hamlet and Ophelia--Romeo and Rosaline, by J.
O. F.
499
Headdresses (Illustrated)
Simple home
wear, net for young lady, cache peigne for young girl,
head-dress for young girl for concerts, etc.
63
Headdresses
for spring weddings and bridal parties
354
Headdress for
opera or an evening reception
451
Heart-Blighting, by Ada L_____ [poem]
352
Health and Long Life in America
372
Helen Bennett, by Marion Harland
[fiction]
23, 111
He said that I was False, by M. A. Rice [poem]
253
Hints to Ladies Studying Botany, by Harland Coultas
514
History of Dancing [very brief]
110
Home Truths for Home Peace [Friends Staying in the House; Preparations
for Company]
437
Homely Topics—Saturday's Mending
381
Housekeeping Journal
189
How Euphrosyne and Pete Daffodil became Literary, by Virginia
De Forrest
[fiction]
321
How Far should the Fashions be followed, by Mrs.
Merrifield
[accommodating age and coloring; cosmetics; small bonnets]
30
How Tea is Made
305
How to be Happy
14
How to Beautify the Kitchen-garden [combining the kitchen and flower
gardens]
465
Hyacinth Glass-stand (Illustrated)
454
I Am Thinking, by Marion Harland [poem]
570
I Have No Mother Now, by Corolla H.
Criswell [poem]
61
I Hold Still, by Charles T. Brooks [poem]
478
Influence, by George W. Bungay [poem]
445
Initial Letters (Illustrated)
170, 256
"Is she Happy?" by Katherine Dean [fiction]
402
Ivy Leaf Pattern (Illustrated)
358
June, by Robert G. Allison [poem]
539
Juvenile Fashions (Illustrated)
Coats, cloaks,
&c.
65
Girl's dress, boy
on hobby horse
390
Girl and boy with
hoops
391
Dress suitable for
a dancing school or small child's party; boy's
dress; chambray gingham dress for girl 6-12; costume for boy same
age;
boy's outfit
480
L. Johnson & Co.'s Type and Stereotype Foundry (Illustrated)
299
Labor, by F. H. Stauffer
122
Lady Editors—Mrs. Hicks of Virginia
560
Lady's Toilet Slipper (Illustrated)
455
Lake Michigan, by Helen Bruce [poem]
254
La Peignoir Marguerite (Illustrated)
4, 66
Lena Grant, by Virginia F. Townsend
[fiction]
124
Letter Receptacle (Illustrated)
359
Letter Writing
48
Life and Adventures of John Smith, by J. B. Duffey
41, 149, 244, 334, 438, 532
Lines by Milton in His Old Age [poem]
382
Lines to Kate Harrington, by Beatrice [poem]
415
Lingerie [description of wealthy woman's bridal trousseau, studs to close
lady's lingerie
neckband, embroidery]
91
Literary Notices
Gift Books;
Dickens's Works Complete; The Christian Year; The
Private
Life of an Eastern King; The Japan Expedition; Lives of the
Queens
of England of the House of Hanover; Horaryhead and
M'Donner; Mysteries of Paris; The Female Bluebeard; Farerino:
A
Romance; Marriage a Lottery; Frank Hilton, or The Queen's Own;
Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress; Wages of Battle; Scenes in the
Practice of a New York Surgeon; Appleton's Library for Young
People;
Juno Clifford: A Tale;
Beechcroft; Cora and the Doctor,
or
Revelations of a Physician's Wife; Aspiration:
An Autobiography
of
Girlhood; Helen Leeson: A Peep at
New York Society; Cooper's
Novels;
Almack's: A Tale of English
Society; Winnie and I; Letters to
a Young
Physician Just Entering Upon Practice; The Lives of the
British
Historians; Flora's Dictionary; Lippincott's Pronouncing
Gazetteer of the World; Inside View of Slavery
84
The
Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races; Letters of English History
and
Tragic Poetry; The Glory of the Redeemer in Person and Work;
The
Heavenly Recognition; Luther's Christmas Tree; Sallust, Florus,
and
Velleius Paterculus; Christian Theism; Table Traits, With Something
on
Them; The Foragers; A New and Comprehensive French Instructor;
Richard
the Fearless; Mortimer's College Life; The Young Lady's
Friend;
The Gloria in Excelsis; Byram's Illustrated Philadelphia
Directory; Life of George Washington; Flora's Dictionary; Curious
Stories
about Fairies and Other Funny People; Prescott's Historical
Works;
Klosterheim, or The Masque; Glenwood, or The Pariah Boy;
Aspiration: An Autobiography of Girlhood; The Physiology of
Marriage; The Works of Shakespeare; The Good Time Coming;
Crochets and Quavers, or Revelations of an Opera Manager in
America; Mitchell's New National Map; Coast Survey
180
The
House by the Sea: A Poem; A
Christmas Wreath, for Little People;
Home
Garner; The Curse of Clifton; The Discarded Daughter;
Mysteries of the Court of the Stuarts; Chapman's Principia; Village
and
Farm Cottages; Plain Talk and Friendly Advice to Domestics;
Aunty Wonderful's Stories; The Great Rosy Diamond; Border
Beagles: A Tale of the Mississippi;
Cicero's Three Books of Offices,
or
Moral Duties; Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars;
The
Anabasis; Mexico and Its Religion; The Library of Standard
Letters; The Elm-Tree Tales; Oakfield:
or, Fellowship in the East;
Mimic
Life: or, Before and Behind the
Curtain; The Heathen Religion
in its
Popular and Symbolical Development; Cora and the Doctor, or,
Revelations of a Physician's Wife; Modern Mysteries Explained and
Exposed; Geoffrey Moncton: or, The
Faithless Guardian; Kate
Weston:
or, To Will and To Do; The Panorama of Life and
Literature; Casper; The Prison of Weltevreden; Instructions for the
Analysis of Soils, Limestones, and Manures
280
Home
Service; History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain;
The
Poetical Works of Augustine Duganne; Napoleon at St. Helena;
The
Works of Charles Lamb; A Child's History of the United States;
An
Outline of the General Principles of Grammar; The Way of
Salvation;
Lily: A Novel; The Life and Reign
of Nicholas I, Emperor
of
Russia; America's Mission; The Sacred Plains; The Irish Abroad and
at
Home; Our Cousin Veronica; Home Comforts; Estelle Grant, or The
Lost
Wife; Lily Huson; Caste: A Store of
Republican Equality; The
Indian
Fairy Book; Hampton Heights, or The Spinster's Ward; Modern
Pilgrims; Meister Karl's Sketch Book; The Last of the Huggermuggers;
The
Lake Shore; Amy Lee, or Without and Within; Indian Legends and
Other
Poems; The Heart of Mabel Ware; Rose Clark; Hill-Side Flowers;
The
String of Pearls; Biographies of the Heroes of History; The Sunbeam
Stories; The Song of Hiawatha; The Mystic and Other Poems; Sabbath
Evening
Readings on the New Testament; Edith Allen, or Sketches of
Life in
Virginia
373
The
Three Marriages; Life of Lord Jeffrey; Notes by a Volunteer of the
French
Republic; The History of England; A Treatise on Phonology;
The
Blind Girl of Wittenberg; Major Jones's Courtship; Major Jones's
Sketches of Travel; Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; The
Holly-Tree Inn; The Pirate's Son; Lucy Boston, or Woman's Rights
and
Spiritualism; The Attache in Madrid; Songs and Ballads of the
American Revolution; The Confidential Correspondence of Napoleon
Bonaparte with His Brother Joseph, Sometimes King of Spain;
Lanmere;
Edith, or The Quaker's Daughter; Home; Alone; Jackson
and New
Orleans; Camp Fires of the Red Men; Sense and
Sensibility; Mrs. Follen's Twilight Stories; The Blue Ribbons;
Selections from the British Poets; Our Church Music; Dreams and
Realities in the Life of a Pastor and Teacher; The Onyx Ring; Little
Paul
and Other Stories; The Hunter's Feast
469
Wild
Western Scenes; An Essay on Liberty and Slavery; The Green
Mountain Girls; Toiling and Hoping; Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily
Occurrence in Speaking, Pronunciation, and Writing the English
Language, Corrected; Ernest Linwood: A
Novel; Memoirs of
Richard Cumberland; The Ocean; Literary Criticisms and Other
Papers;
The Wonders of Science; Learning to Think; The Old
Dominion; The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Richard Penn
Smith;
Courtship and Marriage; India: The
Pearl of Pearl River;
Pictorial
Life and Adventures of Grace O'Malley; A History of
Philosophy in Epitome; The Philosophy of the Weather, and a
Guide
to Its Changes; Rachel Gray; Elements of Logic; Recollections
of the
Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers; The Creole Orphans; Woman's
Faith; The Lost Hunter; The Library of Standard Letters; Letters of
Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu; Ancient Spanish Ballads; Tolla:
A
Tale of
Modern Rome; Florence Betrayed, or, The Last Days of the
Republic; The First and Second Marriages, or, The Courtesies of
Wedded
Life; Aspen Court: A Story of Our
Own Time;
Charlemont, or, The Price of the Village; Beauchamp, or, The
Kentucky Tragedy; '98 and '48: The
Modern Revolutionary History
and
Literature of Ireland; The Shakespeare Papers of the Late
William
Maginn; The Works of the Late Edgar Allen Poe; Wolfsden;
The
History of England, From the Accession of James II; Edith Hale:
A
Village Story; The Island of Cuba; The War in Kansas; Recent
Speeches and Address by Charles Sumner; A Forest Tragedy, and
Other
Tales; The Bush-Boys; Tragic Scenes in the History of
Maryland and the Old French War; Village and Farm Cottages;
Christine, or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs, The Cave of Skulls:
A
Temperance Story
561
Little Economies: The Uses of Hair
[horse, camel, badger, squirrel, and goat] 156
Little Gerty, by Clarence Carleton
[poem]
253
Lou Grant; or, Make your Will, by Hannah Truman [fiction]
406
Low-Voiced Ella, by Ada L_____ [poem]
446
Lura Deane; or the Two Homes in the Country, by Virginia
F. Townsend
[fiction]
221, 306, 395
Maggie Lee, by Mrs. B. F. Enos
[fiction]
206
Maltese Lace Sleeves (Illustrated)
70
Marrying a Planter, by Alice B. Neal
[fiction]
327, 418, 515
Marketing in a Silk Dress, by C. T. Hinckley (Illustrated) [fiction]
193, 236
Mother's Nannie; or, The Child's Sorrow, by Virginia
De Forrest
(Illustrated)
[fiction]
435
Mouchoir, or Handkerchief Sachet (Illustrated)
355
Mound Prairie Institute [Anderson County, TX]
372
Mount Vernon [poem]
179
Mrs. Daffodil at Barnum's Museum, by Virginia De Forrest [fiction]
524
Muggins's MSS., edited by A. E. Stewart [fiction]
430
Music
"Lelia"
2
"The Weyanoke
Waltz"
98
"The
Powhattan Waltz"
194
"The Richmond
Waltz"
290
"The
Emigrant"
386
[short article]
417
"Marian"
54