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Journal Article
Reconstructing and Gendering the Distribution Networks of Godey’s Lady’s Book in the Nineteenth Century
2019
Overview
Historian of American magazines Frank Luther Mott estimates that the average lifespan of many periodicals in the Early Republic was only two years. [...]subscribers might have been reluctant to pay before seeing an actual product. A comprehensive history of their work has yet to be written.37 Eastern periodical publishers tapped into a longer history of independent peddlers when they employed these traveling agents. Since the colonial era, it was not unusual to see itinerant men plying their wares in rural areas. First aided by periodical agents, newspaper editors, postmasters, and traveling agents who facilitated orders and moved money, the Lady's Book gained a wide following that extended beyond the mid-Atlantic. [...]Baskervill twice paid an extra dollar for subscription fees that were overdue, indicating that she only made her payments when he made his rounds. 42.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
