Title
The Ladies’ Magazine
Coverage
Boston
Publisher
Putnam & Hunt
Date
January 1828
Subject
Volume 1, number 1
Description
Already a successful novelist, Sarah Josepha Hale, changed the landscape of American magazine publishing. In 1828, shortly after the publication of her first novel Northwood, she became the first identified female editor of an American magazine, The Ladies’ Magazine, with the hope of making it a vehicle for the education of women. After its run ended in 1836, Philadelphia publisher Louis A. Godey recruited Hale to edit Godey’s Lady’s Book.