brain cramp on Southern magazine

[edwardwatson]

OK, I've tried all the keywords I can think of for my searches. What was the Southern literary/fashion magazine during the period -- the Southern Harper's? I know this one, but I can't remember.

I know I'll feel beyond stupid when the answer is posted.

[Canebrake Rifle Guards]

Re: brain cramp on Southern magazine

Are you thinking of the Southern Literary Messenger published in Richmond, Virginia?

I don't know that they did fashions, but they certainly covered literary subjects. One of its early editors was Edgar Allan Poe, a later editor was George Bagby.

Greg Starbuck

[edwardwatson]

Re: brain cramp on Southern magazine

Thanks for the help but that wasn't it. Anyone else have a suggestion?

[Hank Trent]

Re: brain cramp on Southern magazine

I can't think of any southern magazines that had much on fashions, even the couple of pages that Harper's squeezed in, and certainly not to the extent that Godey's did.

Arthur's and Peterson's were out of Philadelphia I think, so they're no good. Frank Leslie's was out of New York, but it competed more with Harper's Weekly anyway. The Old Guard was southern in sympathy, but I think it was out of New York too and was almost all rabid political, no fashion and not much light stuff. The Southern Quarterly Review was, well, reviews, again no fashion, and it died before the war anyway.

The Southern Literary Messenger was the first that occurred to me, but there was also DeBow's Review out of New Orleans. If it's not either of them, I'm stumped too.

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

[col90]

Re: brain cramp on Southern magazine

I can't think of anything CW period either, although there are a number of things that come to mind from earlier in the period .....unless you have access to a university database, you won't be able to access APS, but maybe looking at their periodicals list will jog your memory. You may view the list here: http://training.proquest.com/trc/spl...s/apsnews.html Just open the excel version of the title list.

Colleen Formby

[vbetts]

Re: brain cramp on Southern magazine

Southern Illustrated News?

Published in Richmond, Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 13, 1862)-v. 4, no. 5 (Sept. 3, 1865), 42 cm. tall.

Vicki Betts