"A house divided against itself cannot stand": true woman and the civil war

• Main Author: Hand, Charlotte Jesamin
• Other Authors: Christopher Peter Trigg
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/71895
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Scholarships on Godey’s Lady’s Book, the “premier national magazine for women” in nineteenth-century America, has largely argued that the publication had cut the American Civil War out of its pages (Belasco 265). Critical convention has been to dismiss the key components of the magazine – domestici...