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The Humming Bird, Or Herald Of Taste
''The Humming Bird, or Herald of Taste'' was an American women's magazine published in 1798. It is the first known magazine in the United States edited by a woman, for women. Publication History ''The Humming Bird'' was published in Newfield, Connecticut, in an area now known as Bridgeport. Its audience was primarily the women of this rural area, and it is an important example of how rural American print culture evolved in the late 18th century. In the history of American women's magazines, this places ''The Humming Bird'' as a rural counterpart to other women-edited periodicals of the era such as the '' Boston Weekly Magazine'' (est. 1802) and the Baltimore-based ''The Observer,'' founded by Eliza Anderson Godefrey in 1806. While the editor's identity has been questioned, it is generally accepted that her claim to female identity is legitimate. The anonymous editor of ''The Humming Bird'' is speculated to have been Polly (Thompson) Hall, wife of the magazine's printer, Lazaru ...
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Quarto
Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves. The leaves are then trimmed along the folds to produce eight book pages. Each printed page presents as one-fourth size of the full sheet. The earliest known European printed book is a quarto, the '' Sibyllenbuch'', believed to have been printed by Johannes Gutenberg in 1452–53, before the Gutenberg Bible, surviving only as a fragment. Quarto is also used as a general description of size of books that are about 12 inches (30 cm) tall, and as such does not necessarily indicate the actual printing format of the books, which may even be unknown as is the case for many modern books. These terms are discussed in greater detail in book sizes. Quarto as format A quarto (from Latin , ablative form of , fourth) is a book or pamphlet made up of one or more full sheets of paper on which 8 pages of t ...
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport is the List of municipalities in Connecticut, most populous city and a major port in the U.S. state of Connecticut. With a population of 148,654 in 2020, it is also the List of cities by population in New England, fifth-most populous in New England. Located in eastern Fairfield County, Connecticut, Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, it is from Manhattan and from The Bronx. It is bordered by the towns of Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull to the north, Fairfield, Connecticut, Fairfield to the west, and Stratford, Connecticut, Stratford to the east. Bridgeport and other towns in Fairfield County make up the Greater Bridgeport, Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury metropolitan statistical area, the second largest Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area in Connecticut. The Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury metropolis forms part of the New York metropolitan area. Inhabited by the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation, Paugus ...
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Magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus '' Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic , ...
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Boston Weekly Magazine
The ''Boston Weekly Magazine'' (1802–1808) of Boston, Massachusetts, was established by Gilbert & Dean in 1802, "devoted to morality, literature, biography, history, the fine arts, agriculture, &c. &c.". Joshua Belcher, Samuel T. Armstrong, Oliver C. Greenleaf, and Susanna Rowson were also affiliated with its production. The magazine ceased in 1808. The magazine was later published under the same name by David H. Ela and John B. Hall in 1840–41. References Further reading * Boston Weekly Magazine. Boston: Gilbert & Deanv.1(1802–1803)v.2(1803–1804)v.3(1804–1805). * Rollo G. Silver Rollo Gabriel Silver (June 27, 1909September 20, 1989) was an American literary historian. Silver was born on June 27, 1909, in New York City, to Anna (Newman) and Stanley Gabriel Silver. He attended Brown University, graduating in 1931. He then .... Belcher & Armstrong Set up Shop: 1805. Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 4, (1951/1952), pp. 201–204 19th century in Boston 1800s in t ...
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Eliza Anderson Godefroy
Eliza Anderson Godefroy (pen name, Beatrice Ironside) is believed to be the first woman to edit a general-interest magazine in the United States. At age 26, from 1806 to 1807, she served as the founder and editor of a Baltimore publication called ''The Observer.'' Early years. Eliza Anderson was the daughter of Baltimore physician Dr. John Crawford. Personal life In 1799, at 19, Eliza married local merchant Henry Anderson. Their time together would be short as Anderson abandoned Eliza and their infant daughter by 1801. In 1805, Anderson accompanied her friend and fellow Baltimorean Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte on a journey to Europe in a vain attempt to convince Napoleon Bonaparte to recognize her marriage to his youngest brother, Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte. Career After Anderson returned to Baltimore in November 1805, she joined ''The Companion and Weekly Miscellany,'' which was in circulation from November 1804 to October 1806. In September 1806, Anderson became the editor ...
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Susanna Rowson
Susanna Rowson, née Haswell (1762 – 2 March 1824) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator, considered the first woman geographer and supporter of female education. She also wrote against slavery. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel '' Charlotte Temple'', the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' was published serially in 1851-1852 and authored the first human geography textbook ''Rowson's Abridgement of Universal Geography'' in 1805. Biography Childhood Susanna Haswell was born in 1762 in Portsmouth, England to Royal Navy Lieutenant William Haswell and his first wife, Susanna Musgrave, who died within days of Susanna's birth. While stationed in Boston her father remarried to Rachel Woodward and started a second family, and after his ship returned to Portsmouth and was decommissioned, he obtained an appointment as a Boston customs officer, bringing his dau ...
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The Coquette
''The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton'' is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster. It was published anonymously in 1797, and did not appear under the author's real name until 1856, 16 years after Foster's death. It was one of the best-selling novels of its time and was reprinted eight times between 1824 and 1828. A fictionalized account of the much-publicized death of a socially elite Connecticut woman after giving birth to a stillborn, illegitimate child at a roadside tavern, Foster's novel highlights the social conditions that lead to the downfall of an otherwise well-educated and socially adept woman. List of characters * Eliza Wharton— the protagonist of the novel who, following the death of her fiancé is pursued by two men: Reverend J. Boyer and Major Peter Sanford. Her free spirit and lack of commitment to the male sex bestow her the term "coquette." Her coquettish nature eventually leads to her demise. * Rev. J. Boyer — the first of Eliza's suitors. He ...
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Hannah Webster Foster
Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, '' The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton'', was published anonymously in 1797. Although it sold well in the 1790s, it was not until 1866 that her name appeared on the title page. In 1798, she published ''The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils'', a commentary on female education in the United States. Biography Born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, it is likely that Foster (née Webster) attended an academy for women like the one she described in ''The Boarding School''; certainly, the literary allusions and historical facts contained in her work indicate she was well educated. In the 1770s she began writing political articles for Boston newspapers, and in 1785 she married a Dartmouth graduate, the Rev. John Foster. The two settled in Brighton, Massachusetts, where John Foster served as a pastor at First ...
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Magazines Established In 1798
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus ''Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic , th ...
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Defunct Literary Magazines Published In The United States
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Defunct Women's Magazines Published In The United States
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American Editors
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