Our sister editors : Sarah J. Hale and the tradition of nineteenth-century American women editors / Patricia Okker.

"Our Sister Editors is the first book-length study of Sarah J. Hale's editorial career. From 1828 to 1836 Hale edited the Boston-based Ladies' Magazine and then from 1837 to 1877 Philadelphia's Godey's Lady's Book, which on the eve of the Civil War was the most widely r...

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Main Author: Okker, Patricia.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1995]
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Table of Contents:
  • Women periodical editors in the nineteenth-century United States
  • From intellectual equality to moral difference: Hale's conversion to separate spheres
  • Essentialism and empowerment: Hales' theory of separate spheres
  • The professionalization of authorship
  • Women's reading
  • Hale's aesthetics of poetry and fiction.