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Louis Antoine Godey was born on June 6, 1804, in New York City, of French parents, Louis and Margaret Godey, who had left their home in Sens and had come to America during the French Revolution.
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Louis Antoine Godey was born on June 6, 1804, in New York City, of French parents, Louis and Margaret Godey, who had left their home in Sens and had come to America during the French Revolution.
Godey had little formal education but found in books and printing-offices a practical training school.
Godey became self-supporting at fifteen. At his death, he left a fortune of over a million dollars. He began his long career in Philadelphia sometime in the 1820s as a clerk and “scissors editor” for Charles Alexander on the Daily Chronicle.
In 1830 the two men became joint proprietors of a new venture - the Lady’s Book. Although Godey is best known as a publisher of this periodical, later Godey’s Lady’s Book, he was connected with a number of other Philadelphia publications.
With Joseph C. Neal and Morton McMichael, he established, in 1836, a successful weekly, the Saturday News and Literary Gazette. He and McMichael were partners in a publishing house that issued the Young People’s Book or Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge (1841), and the Lady’s Musical Library (1842), a periodical supplying the fashionable music of the day.
He was also interested in the Lady’s Dollar Newspaper, and, from 1852 to 1867, in Arthur’s Home Magazine. Alexander soon gave up his connection with the Lady’s Book and Godey assumed entire control of its policies.
In the beginning, he modeled it frankly upon a popular English periodical for women, filling it with material “selected” from foreign magazines, and depending for feminine favor largely upon a page of music and attractive colored fashion plates.
He ceased to borrow from foreign sources and began to print, and pay for, the work of American women writers. In 1837, he bought out the Ladies’ Magazine of Boston, and placed its correct and highly respected editor, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, at the head of his own periodical.
By 1843, he could announce a number “entirely the production of lady writers, ” and assure his readers that the Lady’s Book was the only magazine in the world “consecrated to the promotion of those pure virtues and moral influences which constitute woman’s mission. ”
As the prosperity of the publication increased, Godey attracted to his pages, by means of liberal payments, the best- known of American writers, men as well as women; in 1845, he began to copyright his material.
In his own department, “Godey’s Arm Chair, ” he commented on and advertised the many innovations and “embellishments” of his periodical. By 1858 its circulation had reached 150, 000. He remained sole proprietor of the paper until 1877 when his two sons temporarily took over the business.
At the end of that year, he disposed of his interests to a publishing company and retired, confidently appealing to three generations of readers to acknowledge “the purity of the magazine and its eminent fitness for family reading. ”
Ill health compelled him to spend his winters in St. Augustine for several years before he definitely retired, but in the end, his death came suddenly as he sat reading in his own home.
He finished a chapter in Anne of Geierstein, put his ribbon marker in place, and closed the volume. The book slipped gently from his hand to the floor. He had lived through a turbulent period of American history, but violence played no part in his life.
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Godey took no part in political life but knew intimately most of the public men of his time.
With shrewd business insight, Godey soon realized the wider possibilities of such a publication in a country where women of “the domestic circle” were becoming increasingly important as readers.
Hale was committed to advancing education for young women: she believed a woman could achieve any goals she wanted.
Godey’s personal life was uneventful. He visited Europe three times, but for the most part, he lived quietly in Philadelphia. Many of his employees remained with the Lady’s Book for long years of service and found in him a generous and considerate friend.
He was a genial and unostentatious man, amiably tolerant, but conservative in all his instincts. Pie read widely and was on familiar terms with many contemporary men of letters.
He was respected by his fellow citizens as an able and honorable businessman and liked for his personal qualities.
In the columns of the Lady’s Book his name came to be a synonym for self-advertising, but it was the magazine and not the man that he eulogized.
Publishing a successful periodical for “the elevation of American womanhood” was his great adventure.
Quotes from others about the person
Edgar Allan Poe once said of him, “No man has warmer friends or fewer enemies. ”
On August 31, 1833, Godey married Maria Duke, the daughter of well-to-do parents. Five children of this marriage lived to maturity and gave him their devoted affection.
