Godey's
Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 53, July-December, 1856
A
Bead Bell Pull (Illustrated)
164
A Bead Net for the Back of the Head (Illustrated)
68
A Blessing on the Rain, by Lillian
[poem]
372
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel, by Leigh
Hunt [poem]
184
A Brioche (Illustrated) [knitting]
69
A Carolina Woman of the Revolution: Mary
Grey
214
A Child at Prayer, by Clara Augusta
[poem]
350
A Child's Thought, by R. N. [poem]
540
A Contrast, by Virginia de Forrest
(Illustrated) [fiction]
436
Admiration, by Mrs. Mary E. Nealy
[poem]
157
A Drowsy Lover [poem]
378
A Lady's Work or Carriage Bag (Illustrated)
67
A Lament [poem]
284
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated) [O-Z]
10
A-M
202
N-Z
298
A-Q
394
R-Z,
A, C, D, I, J, M, R
489
A Man's Confession, by Alice B. Neal
[fiction]
137
Amaranthine Flowers, by Robert G. Allison
[poem]
39
A Metaphor, by E. J. Dobell
[poem]
352
A Mother's Morning Prayer [poem]
92
Anagram
23
An Acorn-Basket
164
An "Atlantic Souvenir" by J. M.
C. [poem]
464
Ancient method of Keeping a Washing Account (Illustrated)
[adapted to the
modern—a
numbered dial labeled by item]
315
Anglo-French Institute for the Education of Young Ladies
177
An Infant's Bib (Illustrated)
6, 457
A Remembrance of Autumn [poem]
382
Are Your Sons Properly Educated?
80
Aristocracy, by John G. Saxe [poem]
185
Arrangements for Windows (Illustrated)
[outside blinds]
338
A Russian Princess
81
A Thanksgiving Record, by Alice B. Neal
[fiction]
508
Aunt Tabitha's Fireside: Polly
Bell's Present, by Edith Woodley
[fiction]
231
Autumnal Hours, by Helen Hamilton
[poem]
445
A Wedding Outfit
570
Basket of Acorns and Pine Burrs (Illustrated)
1
Basket of Grasses (Illustrated)
324
Beatrice, by G. H. S. Hull [fiction]
225
Beauty Out West; or How Three Fashionable Young Ladies Spent a Year in
the Wilderness, by
Metta Victoria Fuller [fiction]
14, 120
Be Hopeful and Faithful, by Mrs. Harriet
E. Francis [fiction]
317
Be Patient and Forbearing [fiction]
557
Bible and Newspaper Publishing: Harding's
Publication Office
151
Blind Alice, by Jeannie [poem]
158
Boarding and Day-School for Young Ladies, Philadelphia
274
Bonnets (Illustrated)
65, 162, 357, 447, 546
Book-Marker (Illustrated) [cross
stitch]
70
Boy's Dress (Illustrated)
63
Braided Cushion for a Chair (Illustrated)
359
Braided Pin-cushion (Illustrated)
8
Braided Slipper for a Gentleman (Illustrated)
362
Braiding Patterns (Illustrated)
73, 197, 199, 258, 361, 552
Braiding Pattern for a Melon-Shaped Smoking Cap (Illustrated)
263
Brazilian Desserts [Celestial Slices, Mother Benta's Cakes, Widows, Heavenly
Bacon]
91
Bridal Vows From a Practical Point of View
475
Capes (Illustrated)
66, 357, 448
Cap for the Concert Room, or Theatre (Illustrated)
[netting]
260
Caps (Illustrated)
255, 260, 454
Cardigan, or Scent-Bottle Cover (Illustrated)
[crochet]
297, 359
Carmina Laudis, by Anna M. D. McCoy
[poem]
60
Centre-Table Gossip
Trouble in
Battalions; Cheerfulness; A Wife's Need; Advice for Wives;
Antiquing Oak Furniture; Making a Feather Basket; Deodorizing
Fluid
91
The China Closet,
No. 2; Economy in the Household; Glove Prices;
Cottage Furniture
187
Chantilly lace,
Wedding Cake to Accompany Cards?; Polishing Grates;
Appropriate Slippers; Cleaning Shawls; Garden Chores for October
285
Laying
Out a Flower-Garden; Everyday Economies; Young Girl
Novelists; Invented Names of Basques; Cost of a Year of Finishing
Lessons; Novels Recommended to a Careful Mother; Trimming
Underclothing; India Shawls
381
Bridal
Vows, from a Practical Point of View; The Russian Coronation;
The
Last Autumn Flowers, and How to Manage Them; Young Girls
Need to
Learn Nursing Care; Poison Antidotes; Jet Trimming;
Valenciennes Lace; the Ristori Full-Dress Mantle made of Lace
475
New
Juveniles for Those in Search of Holiday Gift-Books; Protecting
Plants;
A Wedding Outfit [in Japan]; Suggested Piano; Black Lace
Fichus
or Capes with Low Corsage; Suggested Gift Books
569
Chair Cover in Chinese Design (Illustrated)
[crochet and netting]
550
Charades in Action (Illustrated)
Mistle-toe
37
[unsolved]
223
Chemisettes
(Illustrated)
256, 547
Chemistry
for the Young
Apparatus
and Materials Required
270
A Mixture of Sand, and Salt, and Starch being given; to
separate
the
three
368
Sand/Salt/Starch continued
462
Child's
Dress Body in Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
296
Child's
Slipper in Embroidery (Illustrated)
68
Christmas
Morning (Illustrated)
481
CLOAKS,
MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
Black Lace Mantilla, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
4
The Braganza (Illustrated)
484, 571
The Cordovan, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
485
The Crimea
389, 477
The Fashions [paletot of Circassian cloth, black velvet cloak]
(Illustrated)
486
The Hispania, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
295
The Jenny Bell
388, 477
The Josephine, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
100
The Marion (Illustrated)
293, 484, 571
The Medina
388, 477
The Moresco, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
392
The Nightingale (Illustrated)
293
The Ristori Shawl, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
196
The Valencia, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
393
The Victoria
389, 477
Travelling Cloak, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
294
Collars
(Illustrated)
69, 105, 195, 264, 363, 390, 448
College
Temple, Newnan, Georgia (Illustrated) [woman's
college]
154
Colleges
and Institutions for Young Women in the United States
The Ladies' Collegiate Institute of Buckingham
County, VA;
Tennessee
and Alabama Ladies' Institute, or Mary Sharp
TN); Mount Washington College
for
East Alabama Ladies'
Howard Young Ladies' Institute, Gallatin, TN; Franklin Ladies'
Holly Springs, MS
559
Come,
Minstrel, play a Plaintive Air, by St.
John J. Petrisk [poem]
352
Corners
for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)
1, 165, 265, 449, 547
Crochet
Alphabet (Illustrated)
106, 164
Crochet
Fringe (Illustrated)
72
Crochet
Letters (Illustrated)
69
Crochet
Purse (Illustrated)
67
Crochet
Toilet Mat (Illustrated)
164
Curious
Marriage Custom in the Island of Elba
46
Design
for a Double Cottage (Illustrated) [with
diagrams]
159, 353, 542
Doll's
Embroidered Collar (Illustrated)
69
D'Oyley--Architectural
Pattern (Illustrated)
456
Edge
for Front of Gentleman's Shirt (Illustrated)
551
Editors'
Table
Use of term female vs. woman
79
Caroline Lee Hentz obituary
173
"The Three Gifts" [fiction]
271
"The Three Gifts" [fiction] continued
369
"The Three Gifts" [fiction] continued;
Thanksgiving Day
463
Time, "The Angel of the House"
557
Elegant
Work-Basket (Illustrated)
455
Embroidery,
Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)
1, 8, 67, 71, 73, 74, 97, 101, 104, 160,
104,160,168,259, 261, 265, 266, 356, 359, 360, 450, 451,
453,543,
549, 551
Embroidery
for a Gentleman's Cravat
74
Embroidery
for Gentlemen's Shirt Bosoms (Illustrated)
545
Embroidered
Collar (Illustrated)
264, 390
Enigmas
62, 158, 254, 352, 446, 541
Everyday
Economies
382
Exposure
of Children [legs uncovered in cold weather]
308
Extract
from an Old Fogy's Note-Book: Tom's
Wedding, by A Stray
[fiction]
130
Fall
and Winter Fashions of Thomas White & Co. (Illustrated) [hats]
289
Family
Anniversaries [birthdays and wedding anniversaries]
188
Fancy
Braided Bellows (Illustrated)
200
Farewell
to Youth, by W. S. Gaffney [poem]
155
Fashions
dresses; pelerine; lace collars; buttons; ladies'
straw hats; capelines or drawn
Equestrian costume for young lady; child's walking dress; plea
clothing; children's mantles; school bonnets;
boxes; do not appear in street
bonnets
189
Evening dress; dinner dress; walking dress; child's dress; morning
dress; fall fabrics; basques; passementerie; double skirted
mantles; bonnets; collars; earrings; hair work;
Dresses; walking-dress; birthday party dress for little girl;
bretelles;
breakfast cap; travelling chemisette and undersleeves; mantles; black
velvet ribbon trim; flounces, sleeves,
bodices; horizontal stripes
383
Walking dress; carriage dress; silk robe; cloaks and mantles;
description
of Stewart's department store; fall fabrics; gloves; description of
Brodie's; cloaks
477
Walking dress; evening dress; dinner dress; cloaks and mantles;
children's clothing
571
Finish
for Infant's Shirts (Illustrated)
1
"Flora
Farleigh's Manuscript: An Attack of
Authorship, and How It
Cured" by Alice B. Neal [fiction]
424
Flouncing
for Sleeves (Illustrated)
9, 256, 548
For
One at Sea, by Rev. H. H. Weld
(Illustrated) [poem]
155
Front
of Infant's Dress in Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
201
Gentleman's
Comforter (Illustrated) [knitted]
385, 451
Gentleman's
Dressing-Gown (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
449, 450
Gently
Check a Child [poem]
184
Godey's
Arm-Chair
Balm of a Thousand Flowers; Whipping Wives;
Matrimonial
Privileges
of Leap-Year; Coming Out dress of
Royal; Monthly List of New Music;
Pens; Where Engagement
Gooseberry Catsup; Receipt for Washing the Head; Letter from
Mississippi
about Godey's; Joke on an Irish Wardrobe; Monthly
List
of New Music; Cure for Hiccups; Buses May Raise
Fares Due to
Hoops; Keeping Gooseberries; Restoring
Someone Having an
Epileptic Seizure; A Contented
Wife; Cure for a Cough; To Preserve
Grapes; Travelling
Outfit; Economy in the Household; Glove Prices;
Cottage Furniture
182
Trip to St. Paul and Saint Anthony, MN to St. Louis to
Louisville;
Boiling the Teakettle [joke]; Ham Sandwiches;
Monthly List of New Music; Paris Fancy Dress
Ball; Seneca
Superstition; Specimen of a New Cheap
Periodical; Politeness
Between Brothers and Sisters;
Courage, Mothers!; The Husband's
Revenge; Never
Hope You Don't Intrude; Wedding Cards
278
Grinding Coffee [joke]; Thanksgiving Day; Gottschalk, the Pianist;
Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies; Never Deceive
Children; Monthly List of New Music; Dresses Worn at the Late
Birthday Drawing-Room of the Queen of England;
Every Lady Her Own Shoemaker
376
The Country Press; Our Beautiful Slipper; The Age of
Improvement;
Monthly List of New Music
470
E. W. Carryl's Store; Tyndale & Mitchell's China; George Fischer's
Toy
Store; Caryl's Curtain Store; Weights and Measures; A Parisian
Editor's Sanctum; Rented Wedding Presents; Egg in
a Phial; Hoops;
Mustard as an Emetic; how to pronounce Godey
565
Godey's
Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)
Lesson XXV. Perspective
Drawing (Continued)
117
Lesson XXVI. Perspective
Drawing (Continued)
322
Lesson XXVII. Perspective
Drawing (Continued)
506
Grandfather's
Darling, by Virginia De Forrest
(Illustrated) [fiction]
220
Guipure
Flouncing (Illustrated)
70
Guipure
Inserting (Illustrated)
358
Half
of an Embroidered Collar (Illustrated)
105
"Hallowed
be Thy Name," by Rev. H. Hastings
Weld (Illustrated) [poem]
21
Handkerchief
Border (Illustrated)
71, 74
Headdresses
65, 255, 357, 447, 546
Heart
Secrets
371
Hiawatha
Poetry in the Sandwich Islands
56
Home
271, 369
Home
and Woman
213
How
and About Umbrellas (Illustrated)
11
How
Calumny was Punished in Poland
175
How
I came to detest Babies [fiction]
49
How
to make a Bonnet and Cap
Fancy Bonnets
307
Drawn Bonnets, Straw Bonnets, Simple Headdress
433
Caps, Colors Suitable for Different Complexions,
General
How
to Restore Life [after drowning or suffocation]
400
I
am Roaming, by D. Hardy, Jr. [poem]
445
Impromptu,
by Mary [poem]
416
Indian
Summer Morn [poem]
560
Infant's
Bib (Illustrated)
457
Initial
Letters (Illustrated)
263
Inserting
(Illustrated)
265, 266
Inserting
for a Child's Spencer (Illustrated)
8
Inserting
for a Shirt (Illustrated)
97
Inserting
for an Infant's Dress (Illustrated)
101
Inserting
for the Front of an Infant's Robe (Illustrated)
168
Inserting
for Sleeves (Illustrated)
360
Iodine
330
"It
Snows!" by Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale
[poem]
541
Jam Moriturus, by Rev. T. Hempstead [poem]
444
"Lady's
Book" Purse (Illustrated)
[knitted]
451
Lady's
Fancy Furs (Illustrated) [tippet, muff
and cuffs]
292
Lady's
Netted Purse (Illustrated)
262
Lady
Nurses
285
Lady,
School thy Heart, by M. A. Rice [poem]
350
Lady's
Short Paletot (Illustrated)
544
Lady's
Slipper in Velvet Applique (Illustrated)
487, 548
Lamartine's
Appeal
371
Lamartine's
Opinion of Women
372
La Tenentina, by J. T. Gozes [fiction]
40
Laying
out a Flower-Garden—Mrs. Louden's Plan
381
Leaves
from my Journal--Madeira, by Cortez
54
Lela,
by Henry T. Harris [poem]
351
Literary
Notices
Poems by Gold-Pen; Abbie Nott and Other Knots; The
Rise,
Progress
and Present Structure of the English Language;
Linda, or The Young Pilot of the Belle
Recollections; Yankee Travels Through
Hearing; The Second
the Millionaire's
The Teacher:
Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and
Government
of the Young; The Spanish Conquest in America;
The
Rise of the Dutch Republic; The Tragedies of
Aeschylus; Eutaw:
A Sequel to the
Foragers, or the
to Social Science; Appleton's
Cyclopaedia of Biography; Married,
not Mated,
Jane
Eyre, Shirley and Villette; The Ladies' Guide to Perfect
Gentility; The Sparrowgrass Papers, or Living in the
Humorous Poems of Thomas Hood; Columba;
Memorials and Other Papers; The Angel
The Myth of Hiawatha; Brogham's Dramatic Works; French's
Sorrow Cheered and Comforted; The Book of
Explained; Memoir of Frances E. H. M'Lellan; Household
Words for
Girls and Boys; A Lady's Second Journey
Round the World; A
Treatise on Arithmetic, Theoretical
and Practical; Select Orations of
M. T. Cicero; The
Huguenot Exiles; Learning to Read; Vagabond
Life in Mexico;
The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth
Century
Before Christ; Paul Ferroll: A
Tale; Poems by Richard
Chenevix Trench; Calderon: His Life
and Genius; Homeric
Ballads
and Comedies of Lucian; Wit and Wisdom of
the Rev. Sydney Smith;
Philly and Kit, or Life and Raiment; The
Bunsby Papers; Wau-Bun,
the "Early Day" in the Northwest; A
Defence of the American
Policy; Salad for the Social; Life Sketches
from Common Paths;
Fred. Graham, or Masks and Faces; Cyrilla: A Romance;
Trifleton
Papers; The Flower-
Flowers; Peter Gott, the Cape Ann Fisherman;
Life of Schamyl;
The Youth of the Old Dominion; The
Roman Exile; Forest and
Shore, or Legends of the Pine-
Heber, D.D., Bishop of
Novel;
The New Age of
Gold; Vassall Morton: A Novel; The
Earnest Man; The Heroes,
or Greek Fairy Tales; Homeopathy
Simplified, or Domestic
Practice Made Easy; The Medical and
Surgical Reporter
177
The Picture Book for the Young; The Mystery, or Evil and God;
The
Kingdom Which Shall Not Be Destroyed; Wild
Western Scenes;
Fashionable Life; The Gray-Bay Mare,
and Other Humorous
American Sketches; Hand-
Biographical, and
Critical; Tan-Go-Ru-A: An
Historical Drama; The
Pickwick
Papers; Female Life in New York City; Pictorial
Life and
Adventures of Jack Adams, the Celebrated
Sailor and Mutineer; The
Orphan Sisters; The Daisy
Chain, or Aspirations; Notes Taken During
the Expedition
Commanded by Captain R. B. Marcy, U.S.A.,
Through
Unexplored Texas in the Summer and Fall of 1854;
The
Modern Story-Teller; The White Chief: A
Legend
of North
Mexico; John Halifax, Gentleman; Rachel
and the New World: A
Trip to the
United States and
Cuba; The Piazza Tales; The
Wanderer: A
Tale of Life's
Vicissitudes; The Hallig, or The
Sheepfold in the Waters;
The Camel
275
Robert Graham, a Sequel to Linda; Narrative of the Expedition
of an
American Squadron to the
China Seas and Japan;
Memoirs of His
Time; Appleton's Railway and Steam-Navigation
Guide; Western
Africa: Its History, Condition,
and Prospects; Helen Lincoln: A
Tale;
Life and
Adventures of James P. Beckwourth; The Tongue of
Fire,
or, The True Power of Christianity; The Martins of Cro' Martin; The
School-Fellow's Magazine; Lectures Read
to the Seniors in Harvard
College;
Recollections of
a Zouave Before Sebastopol; The Old
Chest and Its Treasures;
Discourses on Special Occasions,
and
Miscellaneous
Papers; Chronological History of the United
The Lays of Ancient Rome; Sibert's Wald; Elm Wood,
or, Helen and
Emma; The Humorous Poetry of the
English Language from Chaucer
to Saxe; Cousin Nicholas;
Hints on Various Subjects; The Immigrant's
Guide
to Minnesota; Nick Nax
373
Two Lectures on the History of the American Union; Religion in
Evelyn Marston; The Life of George Washington;
Bernard Lile: An
Historical Romance Embracing the Period of the
Texas Revolution and the Mexican War; Retribution: A
Tale of
Passion; Widdifield's
Household Mysteries: A
Romance of Southern Life; Life,
Explorations, and
Confidential
Empress
Spurgeon of London—His Sermons; The Marble-Worker's
Characteristics of Women: Moral,
Poetical, and
gift books] &n