Godey's
Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 54, January-June 1857
A Brighter World than This, by Finley Johnson [poem]
351
A Concert at a Seraglio
81
A Day in the Country. A Sketch of
Southern Life, by Pauline Forsyth
[fiction]
342
A Dress for any Season (Illustrated)
101, 165
A Few Words for Children
58
A Good Daughter
304
A Household Friend [piano]
191
Alla Lee, by J. Devereux Ashton [poem]
540
A London Party
560
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)
a-z, lower case
106
A-O, capitals,
grape vines
298
P-Z, capitals,
grape vines
394
A Marriage in the Rothschild Family
514
American Country Life
79
A Moonlight Scene, by M. A. R. R. [poem]
255
A Morning Collar (Illustrated)
358
Ancient Toilet of a Roman Lady (Illustrated)
35
Andalusia, by Edward A. Warriner [poem]
446
A Nervous Wife, and How She Was Cured, by T.
S. Arthur [fiction]
409
A New Toy [hydrogen balloon]
381
An Idyl for Addie's Bridal, by Willie E. Pabor [poem]
256
Another Pleasant Letter from the West [Wisconsin]
320
Answering Letters
209
Antimacassar in Square Netting (Illustrated)
549
Aquariums, No. 1 (Illustrated)
525
Arctic Explorations, by Rev. D. K.
Whitaker (Illustrated)
299, 395
Arthur Rivers, by Helen Irving
[fiction]
145
A School for Indian Girls
561
A Series of Truths
498
A Suburban Cottage in the Italian style (Illustrated)
[with plans]
353
A Symmetrical Cottage (Illustrated)
[with plans]
161
Aunt Tabitha's Fireside, by Edith Woodley
No. XIII—Seth Topliff's
Practical Joke, and the Way He Was Paid
53
A Woman's Smile
537
A Wool Collar [knitted] (Illustrated)
67
A Young Lady's Ideas of Western Life [fiction]
465
Baby Lily, by Helen
Hamilton [poem]
445
Baby's Over-Sock (Illustrated)
70
Basque and Diagram (Illustrated)
63, 64, 257, 258
Bead Carriage Bag (Illustrated)
358
Beaded Bag (Illustrated)
102
Book-Marker (Illustrated)
[cross stitch] [For My Friend]
71
Bonnet for a Young Lady (Illustrated)
357
Bonnets (Illustrated)
65, 259, 357, 384, 453, 545
Boy's Cloak (Illustrated)
[with diagram]
165, 172
Braided Baby's Bib (Illustrated)
6, 7, 69
Braiding Pattern (Illustrated)
202, 544
Braidwork.--Baby's Shoe (Illustrated)
359
Broderie Border (Illustrated)
554
Brioche Applique Cushion (Illustrated)
68
Brioche Cushion, Braided on Merino (Illustrated)
261
Caps (Illustrated)
356, 545
Capes (Illustrated)
260
Carolina Backwoods Sketches, by Mrs. M. S. Whitaker
No. 1—Dora Days
49
No.II—Israel Boatman
245
No.III—Tira, The Dairy-Woman
[African-American]
346
No.IV—Gordon, The Gardener
[African-American]
431
No.V—Clary
[African-American/Native American]; Abram Murdoch
[octogenarian recluse]
516
Carriage Dress
189
Celebrated Women--Mrs. Hemans (Illustrated)
261
Centre-Table Gossip
Work for the Centre-Table—Infant
Socks, Slippers, and Other
Crochet;
Greenhouse Plants and Evergreens; Wise Counsel for the
New Year
91
Carriage Dress; The Flowers of Winter; Sunday Evenings at
Home—
No. 1; A Household Friend [piano]
189
The Fashion of Mourning; Maids of All Work
286
Gift-Making (Wedding and Birthday Presents); the Rothschild
Wedding;
A New Toy—Hydrogen Balloons; Sunday Evenings at Home—
No. 2
381
Sunday Evenings at Home—No. 3; The Admiral's Opinion;
Work in the
Flower Borders for May; Strings and Pins
477
Sunday Evenings at Home—No. 4: What
We Must Come To;
Petticoat Suspenders; Fashion Items from Various Sources; Work
for the Flower Borders in June
570
Change, by Mary S.
Alward [poem]
254
Chemisette in Irish Guipure (Illustrated)
1
Chemisettes (Illustrated)
1, 259, 355, 547
Chemistry for the Young
Lesson III, continued; Lesson
IV—A Mixture of Sand, Salt, Starch,
and Sugar
being Given, to Separate the Four
78
Lesson IV, continued
176
Lesson IV, continued
272
Lesson V—A Mixture of Sand, Starch, Salt, Sugar, and Butter
being
Given; to
Separate the Five
368
Lesson VI—Some Further Remarks About the Properties of
Chloride
of Silver
464
Child's Slipper (Illustrated)
201
Children's Dresses (Illustrated)
289, 383, 451, 452
CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
Fashionable Mantle (Illustrated)
543, 544
The Alcamena (Illustrated)
392, 479
The Belvidera (Illustrated)
393, 479
The Darro, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
196, 197
The Desdemona (Illustrated)
5, 93
The Florentine, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
292
The Hippolita (Illustrated)
392, 479
The Imogen (Illustrated)
393, 479
The Incoyrable (Illustrated)
89
The Montano Talma, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
100
The Moresco (front view), from Brodie
(Illustrated)
388
The Moresco (back view), from Brodie
(Illustrated)
389
The Ophelia (Illustrated)
5, 93
The Shawl Josephine, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
4
The Valencian, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
293
The Vittoria, from Brodie
(Illustrated)
481
Cloth Legging for a Child (Illustrated)
71
Coffee, its History and Cultivation
51
Collars (Illustrated)
67, 104, 294, 358, 453
Come and See my Garden, by Anna M. D. McCoy [poem]
541
Comic Alphabet (Illustrated)
[A-Z, capitals, human figures]
490
Common Things
532
Convolvulus Flower Mat (Illustrated)
193, 265
Crochet Pattern for a Purse (Illustrated)
488
Cruelty to Women
274
Cupid's Arrows, by J.
Howard Smith [poem]
349
Curious Statistics about French Women
276
Diagram of Shirt (Illustrated)
364
Daily Trials, by Alice
B. Neal [fiction]
434
Diarium, by Mrs.
Susan H. Waddell
225
Dress Frock, with Diagram (Illustrated)
449
Editor's Table
New Year; Maud's Toast [poem]; My
Aunt at Home
79
"Genius Has No Sex"; The
Sketch of Aunt Anner
177
Importance of Dictionary
Knowledge; Cruelty to Women; Religious
Novels
273
Tips to Prevent Silly Novels by
Silly Women; Soiree Musicale; The
Romance of Courtship; Medical Education of Women
369
Spring; City versus Western
Ladies; A Young Lady's Ideas of
Western Life
[fiction]; True Comparisons; Reply to the Wish of a
Young
Lady [poem]; The Women of China; Our Country 465
Elisha Kent Kane; A London Party;
The Employment of Women;
Talking Women;
Grove Hill Seminary for Chippewa and Ottawa 559
Edge for front of Gentleman's Shirt (Illustrated)
105
Embroidered Collar (Illustrated)
104, 453
Embroidered Stomacher and Trimming for Child's Frock (Illustrated)
296, 358
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)
63, 64, 68, 71, 72, 74, 105, 162,
165,
167, 168, 171, 172, 202, 257, 258,
260, 264, 268, 359, 360, 450, 456, 460, 487,
488, 543, 548, 552
Embroidery for a Muslin Skirt (Illustrated)
202
Enigmas
62, 160, 256, 352, 448, 542
Falling by Little and Little
27
Fashion and Popularity
249
Fashion Items from Various Sources
571
Fashions
Dress, Home Dress, Evening Dress,
Children's Dress, Cloaks,
Headdresses,
Opera Cloaks, Hoods, Party Dresses, Black Velvet
Dresses, Capes, Fichus, Laces, Handkerchiefs
93
Bride's Dress, Bridesmaid's Dress, Bride's Sister, Bridal Guest,
Mourning
191
Dress, Evening Dress, Carriage Dress, Fichu, Morning Cap,
Chemisette and Sleeve, Berthe, Collar, Brodie's store, Evening
Dresses for Wedding Receptions and Small Parties After Lent,
Blouses in Paris, Cameos, Imitation Flower Jewelry, Buttons,
Wreaths and Bouquets for the Hair, Headdresses 287
Equestrian Habit, Dinner Dress, Walking Dress, Juvenile
Costumes,
Bonnets, Round Hats, Are Americans a Year Behind Paris; Mantles 382
Evening Dress; Dress for Morning Reception; Child's Dress;
Spring
Bonnets; Invalid's Cap; Breakfast Cap; Morning Dress; Spring
Mantles; Shame on Southern Women who Don't Wear Mantles;
Silks; Trimmings
479
Dinner Dress; Morning Dress; Evening Dress; Second
Mourning;
Juvenile Fashions; Lingerie; Bridal Bonnets; Bridal Dresses 573
Fast Women
178
"Fetch" and Carry, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]
112
Finding the Leak, by Alice
B. Neal [fiction]
30
Forget Thee! by Manlius
[poem]
159
French Carriage-Bag (Illustrated)
263
Front of Gentleman's Slipper, Anchor Pattern (Illustrated)
170
Full Instructions in Needle Work of all kinds (Illustrated)
Crochet
40
Crochet With Beads; Knitting
136
Netting
262
Netting (continued)
361
Tatting, or Frivolite; Berlin Work
551
Full-sized Pattern for Border of Flower-pot Stand (Illustrated)
487
Full-sized Pattern for Side of Flower-pot Stand (Illustrated)
485
Gentle Voices, by Mrs.
E. J. Bugbee [poem]
254
Gentleman's Lounging Cap (Illustrated) [crochet]
103
Gift-Making [wedding and birthday]
381
Godey's Arm-Chair
New Years Present of Godeys;
Dressing Children for Winter; Monthly
List of
New Music
85
Monthly List of New Music; "Better-Half"; Hoops; Jokes;
Description
of Bride by Irving
184
Hired Wedding Presents; Modern Bonnets; Jokes; Dress
Children
Warmly; Monthly List of New Music
281
Poem from reader; Paper Hangings; Burning Water;
Tale-Bearing;
"Hoops a Hundred Years Ago"; Monthly List of New Music;
Splendid Dresses work at a late State Ball Given by the Queen of
England; Jokes; Consumption of Hair Powder by the Soldiers of
George II; Place Miss in Parenthesis
375
Monthly List of New Music; Jokes; Recipe vs. Receipt; Sprigs
of
Flowers in Colored Embroidery for Ornamenting a Ball-Dress
472
Monthly List of New Music; Arthur's Patent Self-Sealing Fruit
Cans
and Jars; To Miss Catherine P. [poem]; Hoops of 1750; A Splendid
Wedding in Europe; Poetical Curiosity Based on Bible; Jokes;
Railroad Epitaph; Grand Ball at the Tuileries
566
Godey's Course of Lessons in Drawing (Illustrated)
Lesson
XXVIII.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
130
Lesson XXIX.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
315
Lesson XXX.
Perspective Drawing (Continued)
503
Godey's Lady's book, by G.
R. Calvert [poem]
88
Greek Cap (Illustrated)
[crochet]
544
Greenhouse Plants and Evergreens
91
Hair-Bracelets (Illustrated)
10
Hair-Work (Illustrated)
[breastpin and bracelet]
104
Headdresses (Illustrated)
10, 93, 164
Health and Education
275
Heart, by Cora
[poem]
255
Here and There, by Rev.
W. S. Peterson [poem]
180
Heroism of Doctor Kane
559
Hints on the Art of Dress
538
How to Cut and Contrive Children's Clothes
Why Children Should be Well
Dressed; Fancy Stitches for Trimming
Infants'
Dresses
73
Baby's Wardrobe—Materials; Decoration, Embroidery, &c.;
The
Fittings of the Workbox; The First Shirt; The First Night-Dress 169
The Monthly Gown; The First Pinafore; The Flannel; The Night-Cap;
The First
Petticoat; The Flannel Roller; The Binder; Warmth;
Lightness
and Warmth
266
Ease and Freedom; Causes of Irritation; Quantity of Clothes;
Instructions for Knitting Binders
362
Out-Door Dress, Trimming, Color and Braid, The Hood,
Shortening,
or Second Dress, Infants' Boots, Knitted Boots (instructions) 458
The Little Shirt; Petticoats; To Put in Strings Neatly; Buttons;
Second
Pinafores; Drawers
553
Illustrated Correspondence.
The Patriot Husband Reformed, by Mrs.
Charles
P.
Infant's Shoe (Illustrated)
489
Japan and the China Seas (Illustrated)
107, 203
Lady's Dress (Illustrated)
8, 74
Lamp-Mat in Canvas-Work (Illustrated)
454
Lamp Stand in Patchwork (Illustrated)
354
Laying the Corner-Stone, by Alice B. Neal [fiction]
240
Life's a Sea, by B.
Frank Spalding [poem]
61
Lift the Window, by Lillian
[poem]
159
Light and Shade, by Mrs.
Ann E. Porter [fiction]
414
Lines, by Mrs. M. T.
Tucker
256
Lines to E. S. H. [poem]
350
Lines Written on the Death of a Young and Lovely Friend
[poem]
376
Literary Notices
The Banished Son; Incidents of
Travel and Adventure in the Far West;
The
Three-Fold Test of Modern Spiritualism; The Rifle, Axe,
and
Saddle-Bags, and Other Lectures; Three Per Cent a
Month, or The
Perils of Fast Living; Daisy's Necklace,
and What Came of It; The
Court of Napoleon; A
Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the
English
Language; The Genius of Christianity; Arctic Explorations 83
Passion and Principle: A
Domestic Novel; Little Dorrit; Marrying Too
Late; Milledulcia: A Thousand
Pleasant Things; Paul
Fane; Marion
Barnard; Annals of Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania in the Olden Time;
The Story of Columbus,
Simplified for Young Folks; Whistler, or The
Manly Boy;
The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and Her Allies;
The
Life of Charles Sumner; Dickens's Little Folks;
Home and the World;
Oriental Acquaintance; The Golden
Dagon, or Up and Down the
Irrawaddi; California
In-Doors and Out; The Old Regime and the
Revolution;
Modern Greece; Memoirs of Celebrated Characters; The
Poetry of the East; American Poulterer's
Companion; Harper's School
History; The Key Stone Collection
of Church Music; The Playday
Book; The Architecture
of Country Houses; Merry Book of Puzzles
181
Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Ishmael and the Church;
Claremont,
or The
Undivided Household; A Child's History of Rome;
Rome,
Christian and Papal; Westward Empire, or
The Great Drama of
Human Progress;
Beaumarchais and
His Times; The Two Lights;
Rills from the Fountain
of Life; Morgan Horses; Adventures in the
Wilds of
the United States and British American Provinces; What
Can Woman Do?; The Humors of Falconbridge;
Memoirs of
Washington; Home and the World; Sedgemoor,
or Home Lessons;
Douglass Farm: A Juvenile Story
of Life in Virginia; Cornell's High
School Geography;
The Puddleford Papers, or Humors of the West;
The
Knight of the Golden Melice: An Historical Romance;
Mormon
Wives: A Narrative of Facts Stranger than
Fiction; The Adventures
of a Roving Diplomatist; The
Poetical Works of Horace Smith and
James Smith; Pictures
of the Olden Time; Whaling and Fishing; The
Laughable
Adventures of Brown, Jones, and Robinson; Never Mind
the Face; The Bible in the Workshop; Poetic Readings
for Schools
and Families; The Young Lady's
Guide to the Harmonious
Development of Character; The
Torchlight, or Through the Wood;
Rhymes and Roundelays,
in Praise of a Country Life; Dramatic
Scenes, with
Other Poems; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner;
Recollections of a Lifetime; Mariamne, or The Queen's Fate;
Studies
in the Field and Forest; Heaven; Life and Thought;
Life of Mary
Jemison; Plays and Poems; Parlor
Dramas, or Dramatic Scenes,
for Home Amusement;
Flowers by the Wayside
276
Peterson's Illustrated Uniform Edition of Humorous American
Works;
Frank Forester's Sporting Scenes and Characters; The Two Lovers,
or A Sister's Devotion; Henry Lyle, or Life and Existence; The
Household Angel in Disguise; The Economical Cook and House
Book, or Hints on the Daily Duties of a Housekeeper; A Physician's
Vacation, or A Summer in Europe; Poems of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow; Songs of Summer; Words for the Hour; Our
Grandmother's Stories, and Aunt Kate's Fireside Memories;
Wieland, or The Transformation; Durang's Terpsichore, or
Ball-Room Guide; The Tragedies of Euripedes; Lake Ngami;
Kathie Brande:
A Fireside History of a Quiet Life; El Gringo, or,
New Mexico and Her People; Dore; Introductory Lessons on
Morals and Christian Evidences; Life in Israel, or Portraitures of
Hebrew Character; Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist
Churches; An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian
Names; Essays, Biographical and Critical, or Studies of Character;
The Bible and Men of Learning
373
Love After Marriage, and Other Stories of the Heart; Frank
Fairleigh:
or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil; Lewis Arundel, or
The
Railroad of Life; The Three Guardsmen, or The
Feats and
Adventures of a Gascon Adventurer; The
Chinese Sugar-Cane;
Examples from the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries; The
Golden Legacy:
A Story of Life's Phases; The Artist's Bride, or
The Pawnbroker's
Heir; Inquire Within; The Sultan and His People;
The
Star and the Cloud; American Gentleman's Guide to
Politeness
and Fashion; Silvia, or The Lost Shepherd;
Lectures on the British
Poets; Villas and Cottages;
Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry;
History of King Richard
the First of England; The Little Learner:
Learning About
Right and Wrong; Songs and Ballads; Morals for
the
Young; Lardner's One Thousand and Ten Things Worth
Knowing; Poems by Estelle Anna Lewis; The Works of
Shakespeare;
The Shoemaker's Daughter; The Silent
Footsteps; Step by Step, or
Delia Arlington, a Fireside Story;
Poems, Original and Translated, by
William W.
Caldwell; Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker's Hill;
The Rural Poetry of the English Language; Six Months in
Kansas,
by a Lady; Sister Anne: A
Romance; Pauperism in the
Great Cities:
A Discourse
469
My Last Cruise, or Where We Went and What We Saw; The
Charity
of the
Primitive Churches; Vivia, or The Secret of Power; Miss
Leslie's New Cook-Book; Ten Thousand a Year:
A Novel; Twenty
Years After, or The Further Feats and
Fortunes of a Gascon
Adventurer; The Forty-Five Guardsmen;
Love After Marriage and
Other Stories of the Heart;
Silverwood: A Book of Memories; The
Husband in Utah,
or Sights and Scenes Among the Mormons;
Smiles and
Frowns; Ivors; Biographical and Historical Sketches;
Sermons of the Reverend C. H. Spurgeon of London; School
Amusements, or How to Make the School Interesting;
Arctic
Adventure, by Sea and by Land; Religious Truth
Illustrated from
Science; Arthur Mervyn, or The Memoirs of
the Year 1793; The
Days of My Life: An Autobiography;
Stories of the Island World;
The Chinese Sugar-Cane and
Sugar-Making; The Complete
Spelling-Book; Prose Works
of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;
Familiar
Astronomy
563
Love's Idolatry, by G.
H. S. Hull [poem]
62
Maids of all Work
286
Maud's Toast [poem]
79
May: The
Squatter's Daughter, by Metta Victoria
Victor [fiction]
17, 121, 210
Meaning of Husband and Wife
144
Medical Education of Women
371
Memory's Chamber, by D.
Hardy, Jr. [poem]
59
Moire Antique
493
Morning Dress, or Robe de Chambre (Illustrated)
387, 479
Mosaical Origin of Woman [poem]
276
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
276, 372, 468, 562
Mourning Collar and Cuff (Illustrated) [In crepe, seed beads and small bugles] 294, 357
Mrs. Appleton's Maid, by Kate
M. H.
494
Mrs. Daffodil's Shopping Expedition, by Virginia de Forrest
500
Mrs. Hale's Books
180
Music
"Trio Juncto in Uno!"
(Ballads of the Olden Time No. 1) by
F.
Nicholls Crouch
2
"Trio Juncto in Uno!"
No. 2, by F. Nicholls Crouch (Ballads of the
Olden Time
No. 2)
98
"The Thorn!" by F.
Nicholls Crouch (Ballads of the Olden Time
No. 3)
194
"Trio Juncto in Uno!":
Wandering Willie! by F. Nicholls Crouch
(Ballads of the Olden Time No. 4) &