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The Peterson MagazineAmerican (Philadelphia, PA), 1842 - 1898
The Peterson magazine. (Philadelphia : Charles J. Peterson, 1842-1898)
Peterson's Ladies' Magazine began in 1842. By the 1860s, Peterson's Ladies' Magazine had 150,000 subscribers. Godey's had been sold as a subscription gift that men would buy for wives and sisters and so too was the later Petersons. Peterson's cultivated the idea of middle class domesticity with articles and by focusing on fiction written mainly by women.
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