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vii Figures 1.1 Editor of the Lady’s Book, frontispiece, Godey’s, February 1850 5 1.2 Sarah J. Hale, frontispiece, Godey’s, December 1850 6 1.3 Editor of Graham’s Magazine, frontispiece, Graham’s, July 1850 7 1.4 Graham’s Magazine 1846, title cover 8 1.5 Edith, frontispiece, Peterson’s Ladies’ National Magazine, July 1849 10 2.1 Thomas Sully 33 3.1 Morton McMichael 39 3.2 Miss Eliza Leslie, frontispiece, Godey’s, January 1846 40 3.3 T. S. Arthur, frontispiece, Godey’s, January 1844 42 3.4 The Rustic Maid, frontispiece, Miss Leslie’s, May 1843 47 3.5 The City Belle, frontispiece, Miss Leslie’s, May 1843 48 4.1 Title cover, Boston Miscellany, April 1842 60 4.2 Title cover, The Eclectic Magazine, August 1845 67 4.3 The Culture and Preparation of Tea, frontispiece, Ladies’ Companion, August 1843 72 4.4 Doctor Sian Seng; Or, a Chinaman in Paris, Graham’s, March 1849, page 174 73 4.5 Storming of Palace Hill at the Battle of Monterey, frontispiece, Columbian, January 1847 78 4.6 The Penobscot Belle, frontispiece, Ladies’ Repository, January 1849 83 4.7 The Young Vermont Mathematician, frontispiece, Ladies’ Repository, April 1849 85 5.1 The Mother, frontispiece, Graham’s, July 1843 97 5.2 The Snake in the Grass, frontispiece, Sartain’s, October 1849 101 5.3 The Bud and the Blossom, frontispiece, Graham’s, August 1842 106 5.4 Steps to Ruin, I, frontispiece, The Union, November 1847 111 5.5 The Novel Reader, frontispiece, The Union, November 1847 113 5.6 Taking the Advantage, frontispiece, The Union, August 1847 115 6.1 The Rose and the Lily, frontispiece, Godey’s, September 1845 132 6.2 The Child and Lute, frontispiece, Graham’s, January 1845 133 6.3 Heroic Women of America/The Rescue, frontispiece, Godey’s, January 1847 135 viii FIGURES 6.4 Fort MacKenzie, frontispiece, Graham’s, November 1847 138 6.5 Domestic Life among the Indians, frontispiece, Godey’s, June 1845 139 7.1 The Sportsman, frontispiece, Graham’s, October 1847 143 7.2 Mountain Airs and City Graces, fashion plate, Godey’s, October 1850 145 7.3 Godey’s 1848 Lady’s Book, title cover, Godey’s, January 1848 147 7.4 It Is I, frontispiece, Peterson’s, June 1849 149 7.5 The Lost Glove, frontispiece, The Union, April 1848 153 8.1 Taking the Queue, frontispiece, Godey’s, August 1849 161 8.2 The Burial of De Soto on the Mississippi, frontispiece, Sartain’s, October 1851 165 ...

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