Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival-Godey’s Lady’s Book Edition

Written byDana Wilson Charlotte Mason Inspired
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While going through my husband’s parents’ belongings recently,  I uncovered a rather tattered collection of several 1880 Godey’s Lady’s Book editions! And just in time to include photos in this edition of the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival.

If you aren’t familiar with this Victorian-era magazine, it was published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1878 and is considered one of the most popular magazines of its time.

Containing engravings of contemporary fashion for ladies and children, recipes, games, and poetry, it also included articles and novelettes by noteworthy American authors.

Interestingly, it was perhaps the first magazine to be copyrighted in 1845 to keep others from stealing and reproducing its content.

This magazine holds special significance for Charlotte Mason advocates as it contains a glimpse into the time period when she lived.  It’s fascinating reading, although the minuscule point size is rather challenging.

I hope you enjoy these glimpses from the past!

This edition of the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival includes several posts about how other homeschooling families teach “Charlotte-Mason style” in their homes. We start with an overall methodology post.

Charlotte Mason Methodology

Penney Douglas shares what a Charlotte Mason education looks like in her home in How We Have Applied Charlotte Mason Principles in Our Homeschool, posted at Changed By Love.

A teacher after my own heart, Robin Phillips offers up a helping of nontraditional alternatives to the ho-hum assignments we so easily hand out in Creative Home School Project Formats: 15Traditional, 10 Nontraditional posted at Crack the Egg. (editor’s note: the links to this blog are inactive and have been removed.) 

Even then, we loved our chocolate!

 

Next up for this Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival:  Nature Study

Shannon rediscovered why we should include nature study in your homeschool journey. l encourage you to read Regaining Focus with Charlotte Mason,  at Mountaineer Country, and don’t shelve nature study in your homeschooling.

In her delightful post, Holli presents Studying Nature…a year gone by..., showing us one of her children’s progress after a year of nature study.  Her blog: Settled In My Home.

Bethany presents a post, documented with photos and resources, describing her family’s  Winter

Squirrel Study posted at Little Homeschool Blessings.

Victorian fashions!
Victorian fashions!

Parenting

Pamela presents a thoughtful post concerning Teasing posted at Blah, Blah, Blog.

 Living Books Instead of Textbooks

Victorian Era Handicrafts
Victorian Era Handicrafts

Dawn presents Books, Books, and More Books!!! , offering a helpful book list and fun project ideas for the Revolutionary period of U.S. history. Posted at My 4 Sweetums.

Jennifer in MamaLand presents The Myth of Ability and How Textbooks Drag Education Down,  posted at Adventures in Mama-Land. I agree with Jennifer that textbooks are often poorly written, inaccurate, and just.plain.dull.

Nancy encourages us by sharing a literary discussion in her household in  Forest for the Trees posted at Sage Parnassus. This is a great post for all of you moms with younger children.  Keep reading those living books!

Thank you to all of you Charlotte Mason aficionados who contributed to this edition!

Readers, if you read a post that challenges, encourages, or inspires you, please take the time to leave a comment on this or the author’s personal post.

Thank you for reading this edition of the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival!

 

26 Comments

  1. You’re so welcome, Lea Ann! Thanks for the heads up about the page! I will certainly post the next one as well. Thanks for taking the time to comment, Lea Ann.

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  6. Penney, I agree – I loved nature study and we did a lot of it when my children were younger, but it is challenging to continue through middle school and beyond when there are so many ‘more serious’ academic things to cover. Thanks for commenting!

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  9. Hi Dana,

    I’m going to try to comment again! I love the Godey’s Lady’s Book theme. What a treasure you found!

    Thanks for including my post in this carnival. I’m going to make sure I check out the nature study posts for sure. A weak area for me.

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  13. Thanks to Jennifer, Mama Squirrel, Jimmie, Marcia and Jenny Anne for visiting and taking the time to comment! Hope you enjoyed the carnival!

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  15. That’s okay–I’ll resubmit it for next time. I have noticed as well that the “submit” page hasn’t been working perfectly. Maybe I’ll try emailing it instead–seems more reliable.

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  21. Mama Squirrel~ I’m so sorry your post was not included! I checked spam before posting and just now – it is not in there. We did have a problem with the software, though, and had several posts go to Amy instead of me and a few people sent them directly to me because the software rejected their post. We thought we had them all, but I guess we missed one! If you would like to include it, please send it to me directly at [email protected] and I would be happy to add it. Otherwise I would resubmit it to be included in the next carnival. Again, sorry for your inconvenience. 🙁

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