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Such models of feminine perfection commonly appear in the NMBA, a periodical mixing colored fashion plates with fiction and poetry that ennoble women in the home and articulate her role as a matriarchal savior. Indeed, it appeared that women also needed to save literature from men, who could no longer carry the flame of literature because the moral power now required by literature was not in them, as suggested by an observer in the July 1839 issue of the NMBA. Here the reviewer of a poetry volume by Mrs.

The church pastor remembers each of them as he makes his daily walk through the graveyard to the church. The speaker observes that the pastor is not well groomed with “no wifely, womanly hands” to smooth his hair or clothing. The speaker joins the pastor, who points to one section of the cemetery called the “Stranger’s Lair,” where “Strange, dark sailors, from distant seas” are buried: “And almost all had some silken string, / ‘Neath the coarsest shirt, some coin or ring / Or locket, whose slender twist of hair, / Had anchored the stormy heart somewhere” (261).

Such models of feminine perfection commonly appear in the NMBA, a periodical mixing colored fashion plates with fiction and poetry that ennoble women in the home and articulate her role as a matriarchal savior. Indeed, it appeared that women also needed to save literature from men, who could no longer carry the flame of literature because the moral power now required by literature was not in them, as suggested by an observer in the July 1839 issue of the NMBA. Here the reviewer of a poetry volume by Mrs.

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