Commercializing childhood : childrens magazines urban gentility and the ideal of the American child 1823 1918 Introduction Establishing childrens magazines 1823 1856. Deacon Williss Companion Aunt Marias Miscellany and the limits of gentility Commercializing childrens magazines 1857 1873. Perry Mason and sensational gentility The youths companion and the Civil War The cultural custodians The jack in the pulpit Sustaining childrens magazines 1873 1918. Tales and the city Childrens magazines and modern childhood Epilogue