1860-61 RARE CIVIL WAR MAG FOR FEMALES. Slavery, Soldiers, Fulton Street Prayer Revival, &c.
1860-61 RARE CIVIL WAR MAG FOR FEMALES. Slavery, Soldiers, Fulton Street Prayer Revival, &c.
Very scarce volume including two full years of an important periodical created for the edification of women and raising funds and advocacy for societies to rescue vulnerable women from poverty, work houses, prostitution, etc., The periodical became especially important as women would become the "home guard" during the Civil War. The 1861 entire year is especially rare with extensive content on and for women during the Civil War, slavery, etc.,
Also a fascinating insight into views of the idealized woman of the era, etc. etc. Other subjects as well. Take a moment to scan through the contents. Excellent.
The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. 1860. New York. American Female Guardian Society. 1860. 384pp.
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The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. 1861. New York. American Female Guardian Society. 1861. 384pp.
Contents for 1860: Vicious Literature; An American Soldier of the Revolution Seeking Heaven; The Face and Index of Real Character; The Love of Dress; The Sphere of Woman; A Ghost Story; A World's Prayer Meeting [Prayer Revival]; Domestic Dischords; Revival in England; Poverty not so Great a Curse; Frightening Children; The Boot-Black - A Story for Boys; Expulsion of Missionaries [Expelled from Kentucky because of their being Anti-Slavery]; The Efficacy of Prayer; The Dumb Boy; City Homes for the Poor; Testimony from Foster-Parents; The Fruits of Woman's Influence; Sympathy a Duty; The Orphan's Prayer; Saved - Or, the Power of Prayer; George Washington in Tears; Rules for Moral Warfare; Obedience to Parents; Girl Health; Missionary Correspondence; Apples of Sodom; Mother's Love; Extravagance in Female Dress; The Finale of Flirtations [rape and murder]; Parental Hopes and Fears; Matron's Reports from the Industrial Schools; Letters from Home Children and Foster Parents; The Influence of Prayer; True Liberty; The Cuban Captain and the Country Girl; Purity of Character; The Penniless Orphan; Bad Books; Henry Ward Beecher on Children; The Industry of Women; Sanatory Retreat at Sylvan Springs; Florence Nightingale by A. C. Reinoehl; Neglected Children; The Era of Prayer [Fulton Street Prayer Meetings]; Never Tell a Child She is Pretty; The Best Government that which Governs Least; A Great Wickedness [Slavery]; Adopted Children; Jewelry; A Day among the Tenements; The Mother's Concert of Prayer; Did Jesus Sing?; The Deformed One; What Constitutes a Lady?; The Week of Prayer - Prayer Revival in Calcutta; etc., etc.
Contents for 1861: Wild Oats; Honesty and Affection among the Wretched; Preaching to Outcasts; We Live Life Measured in Deeds not Years; The Ladies' Christian Association Concert of Prayer; What Woman can Do; Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale [Original for the Advocate and Guardian]; Pernicious Fiction and Crime; An Interesting Home for Orphans [George Muller]; A Plea for the Fallen; The Little Rag-Sorter; A National Fast; The Custody of Orphan Children; The Formation of Character - An Address to Young Ladies; The Bible in Congress; Leading Children to Christ; A Mother's Heart; How a Little Sabbath Scholar Can Die; The Mother's Concert of Prayer; The Child is the Father of the Man; Nobody Like Mother; Mission Work in New Haven; An Old-Fashioned Prayer Meeting; Early Marriage; A Word with the Boys; Mrs. Mason of Burmah; The Vow of the Rechabites; Errors in Female Training; The Famine in Kansas; Woman's Ministry; Deaconesses; A Word to Mother; War on Christian Principles; The Bible Women of St. Giles; Perils of Winter Travel; Death and Poverty; The Old-Fashioned Mothers; Our Baby is Dead; The Outcast; Mr. Gough's Lecture - The Children of the Streets; The Idiot Boy; Physical Training of Girls; The Mother of the Children of the Street; Purity of Character; Talks about Home Children; To Avoid a Bad Husband; A Word to Young Ladies; The Little Girls Sewing Bee; Training Children; The Poor Boy and His Mother; Work for Single Women; She had been with Jesus; What is the War About?; A Gift for a Blow; The Emigrant Ship; Good News from Washington; An Angel; Seceding Virginia; A Blind Girl Feeling a Sunbeam; Action on the State of the Country; New York City Missions; Mustering In; Double Distilled Rascality; Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb; The American Flag; The Convict Boy and His Mother; To the Officers and Soldiers of the Army; True Patriotism; A Roused Nation; The War Comet - God's Rocket; Revival in an Orphan House; The Connection of Slavery with the War - Its Doom; Our Country's Need; Our Boys in their "Teens;" The First Underground Railroad; Munitions of Rocks; Day of Fasting and Prayer [lengthy text by Abraham Lincoln]; Children in History; Latest from the Seat of War - Great Slaughter!; Preaching to Children; The Deserted; A Sabbath in War; The London Standard on the Rebellion; Gone to the War; An Incident of the Times; A Refugee's Statement [Fulton Street Prayer Meeting]; A Man Guarding $3,000,000 Worth of Diamonds; Christians in the Army; Thanksgiving in 1861; Peace Principles; The Soldier's Cardinal Virtues; Our Country and Our Home; Have We the Alliance of Heaven; A War Story; Glimpses of Camp-Life; etc. etc.
Plus extensive reports of the work of the Guardian Society, rescuing women from debauchery, etc., also extensive original correspondence from women to the periodical;
Good - to fair. Some occasional staining and closed tears and handling; 1861 has three sheets torn crosswise at the bottom 25% with one of them lacking some text - the others torn but textually unaffected.