ABC #030: Joseph Clay Neal, Louis Antoine Godey, & Morton McMichael - The Saturday Courier

• Joseph Clay Neal, whom many called “the American Dickens,” started his writing career with an evening newspaper “The Daily Courier,” and ended up fostering the career of a teenage girl who became one of the primary woman authors of the 19th century. 
• Louis Antoine Godey, whose “Lady’s Book” was struggling until he had the good sense to hire an Episcopalian woman from Boston as his editor and turned his magazine into one of the most widely circulated in the country. 
• Morton McMichael, who was not only a writer, editor, and publisher, but Philadelphia County Sheriff and City Mayor, yet is little remembered today. 

The three of them came together for several years in the 1830s and 1840s to produce two moderately successful publications, and inspire another young author named Edgar Allan Poe.  All of this and more in the September 2021 edition of “All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories.”

 

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