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Cambridge History
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Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I
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Magazines, Annuals, and Gift-books, 17831850
> Philadelphia:
Godeys Ladys Book; Grahams Magazine
New York:
The Knickerbocker Magazine; The Knickerbocker Gallery
The South:
The Southern Literary Messenger
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes
(190721).
VOLUME XVI. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I.
XX.
Magazines, Annuals, and Gift-books, 17831850
.
§ 12. Philadelphia:
Godeys Ladys Book; Grahams Magazine
.
Godeys Ladys Book,
long the most popular of a class of magazines that has flourished in Philadelphia, was founded by Louis A. Godey in 1830, though not until after Mrs. Sarah J. Hale assumed the editorship in 1837 did it attain its greatest vogue. The success of the
Ladys Book
was largely due to its coloured fashion plates and a quantity of light and sentimental poetry and fiction, but its financial success enabled it to make seductive offers to distinguished writers, and it secured occasional contributions from Poe, Longfellow, Holmes, and others.
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A later Philadelphia magazine was
Grahams,
established in 1841 by the union of
The Casket,
which had formerly been owned by George R. Graham and Charles J. Peterson, and
Burtons Gentlemans Magazine,
a monthly now remembered chiefly because Poe was for a time associate editor. Poe retained for something over a year a similar position on the new
Grahams Magazine,
and among his successors was the Rev. Rufus W. Griswold. The magazine achieved great popularity, and is said for a time to have brought its owner large financial returns. According to a somewhat dubious tradition its decline began when Graham published a harshly unfavourable review of
Uncle Toms Cabin.
Among the contributors to
Grahams
in its best days were Cooper, Longfellow, Lowell, Hawthorne, and Simms.
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