The Sewing-Bird

Literature

Articles & Clippings

• A Plea for the Poor
• Charleston Mercury, Charleston, SC
  November 22, 1862, p. 1, c. 5

• A Word to the Ladies
• Southern Confederacy, Atlanta, GA
  September 28, 1861

• Pretty Names for Girls
• Godey’s Lady’s Book
  Month Unknown, 1854

• When Ladies Should Be Looked At
• Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, Augusta, GA,
  January 4, 1860

• West-Views of the South
• New Orleans' Daily Picayune,
  March 6, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
  

Novels

• Sisters, and Not Sisters
• American Tract Society of New York — 1865
• Sisters tells the tale of two acquainted familes, one financially poor but rich at heart, the other well-off but lacking in moral care. This cautionary tale follows the siblings in these two families – each consisting of a sister and a brother – and their trials of growing up under tempting circumstances.

Medical Texts

• Creative and Sexual Science
• Prof. O.S. Fowler — 1875
• Covers 1825 – 1875. “Creative and Sexual Science: or Manhood, Womanhood, and Their Mutual Interrelations; Love, Its Laws, Power, Etc.; Selection, or Mutual Adaptation; Courtship, Married Life, and Perfect Children; Their generation, endowment, paternity, maternity, bearing, nursing and rearing; together with puberty, boyhood, girlhood, etc.; sexual impairments restored, male vigor and female health and beauty perpetuated and augmented, etc., as taught by Phrenology and Physiology.”