The Ladies' Repository, Volume 24J.F. Wright and L. Swormstedt, 1864 - Methodist Episcopal Church The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900. |
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... Christian Religion , the .... ... 428 December . - The Close of the Year - The Advance in Price - Our Engravings - Articles Declined - Articles Ac- cepted .. .758 Christian Woman in Life and Death - Mrs . Thomson , Rev. J. M. Trimble ...
... Christian Religion , the .... ... 428 December . - The Close of the Year - The Advance in Price - Our Engravings - Articles Declined - Articles Ac- cepted .. .758 Christian Woman in Life and Death - Mrs . Thomson , Rev. J. M. Trimble ...
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... Christian Commission - Con- sumption of Wool - British House of Commons - German Universities - Lumber Trade at Chicago - Progress of Education in Southern Italy - Indian Pagans in New York - The Moon and the Weather - Religious ...
... Christian Commission - Con- sumption of Wool - British House of Commons - German Universities - Lumber Trade at Chicago - Progress of Education in Southern Italy - Indian Pagans in New York - The Moon and the Weather - Religious ...
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... Christian - The Study of Words - Origin of " Wife " . September - Origin of Paper Money - A Buddhist Tem- ple - Query - Authorship of a Poem : Answer to Ques- tion - An Epicene Pronoun - Algebraic Problem - The Pope's Tiara - Price of a ...
... Christian - The Study of Words - Origin of " Wife " . September - Origin of Paper Money - A Buddhist Tem- ple - Query - Authorship of a Poem : Answer to Ques- tion - An Epicene Pronoun - Algebraic Problem - The Pope's Tiara - Price of a ...
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... Christian Ministry . .634 November . - The Love of Home - Christ our Deliverer- Sorrows of Great Men - Shade Essential to the Effect of Light - The True Man - Keep the Birthday - Somebody's Darling .698 December . - The Faithful Pastor ...
... Christian Ministry . .634 November . - The Love of Home - Christ our Deliverer- Sorrows of Great Men - Shade Essential to the Effect of Light - The True Man - Keep the Birthday - Somebody's Darling .698 December . - The Faithful Pastor ...
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... Christian ministers . To him earth was but a stepping - stone to heaven . He resigned dignities that had been forced upon him in the reign of the second Charles to close his life in privacy and seclusion . He died several years later ...
... Christian ministers . To him earth was but a stepping - stone to heaven . He resigned dignities that had been forced upon him in the reign of the second Charles to close his life in privacy and seclusion . He died several years later ...
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