Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine

Not to be confused with Arthur's Magazine.

Arthur's Home Magazine, 1867

Arthur's Home Magazine (1852 – c. 1898) or Ladies' Home Magazine was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur. Editors Arthur and Virginia Frances Townsend selected writing and illustrations intended to appeal to female readers. Among the contributors were Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Rosella Rice, and Kate Sutherland.[1]

In its early years, the monthly contained a selection of articles originally published in Arthur's weekly Home Gazette.[2][3] Its non-fiction stories contained occasional factual inaccuracies for the sake of a good read.[4] A contemporary review judged it "gotten up in good taste and well; and is in nothing overdone. Even its fashion plates are not quite such extravagant caricatures of rag-baby work as are usually met with in some of the more fancy magazines."[5] Readers included patrons of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco.[6]

Author Rosella Rice, best known for her writings about Johnny Appleseed, contributed countless stories, humorous essays, tutorials, and poems to the magazine. Writing from the perspective of various comedic characters, she adopted pseudonyms including Pipsissiway Potts (responsible homemaker),[7] Aunt Chatty Brooks (eccentric hotelier),[8][9][10][11] and Mrs. Sam Starkey (elderly busybody).[12] The characters, likely created for Arthur's, "inhabited her magazine's stories, and became 'real' to hundreds of readers".[13]

Alternate titles

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  • Arthur's Home Magazine[14]
  • Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine[15][16][17]
  • Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine[18]
  • The Home Magazine[14]
  • Ladies' Home Magazine[14]
  • Lady's Home Magazine

References

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  1. ^ Alice Fahs (1999). "The Feminized Civil War: Gender, Northern Popular Literature, and the Memory of the War, 1861-1900". Journal of American History. 85.
  2. ^ Bertha Monica Stearns (1945). "Philadelphia Magazines for Ladies: 1830-1860". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 69.
  3. ^ "About Arthur's home gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1850-1855". US Newspaper Directory. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  4. ^ Dorothy Bundy Turner Potter (2010), Food for Apollo: cultivated music in antebellum Philadelphia, Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, OL 24902445M
  5. ^ Wisconsin Farmer and North-Western Cultivator. 1857. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Annual report of the president of the Mercantitle Library Association of San Francisco". 1855. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine. T.S. Arthur & Sons. 1875.
  8. ^ Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John (1901). Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. D. Appleton. p. 290.
  9. ^ Barile, Mary Collins (2013-05-28). Hooked Rugs of the Midwest: A Handcrafted History. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61423-948-2.
  10. ^ App. II, 1925? (1 .) ; III, 1928 (9 p.) ; [IV] 1931 (7 p.) : V, 1934 (9 p.). W. Abbatt. 1924.
  11. ^ The Colloquial Who's who: An Attempt to Identify the Many Authors, Writers and Contributors who Have Used Pen-names, Initials, Etc. (1600-1924), Also a List of Sobriquets, Nicknames, Epigrams, Oddities, War Phrases, Etc. W. Abbatt. 1924.
  12. ^ "Rosella Rice - more information". 2016-03-22. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  13. ^ cavin, lee. "Conversation: Perrysville's Rosella Rice: A liberated woman before women's lib". Ashland Times-Gazette. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  14. ^ a b c Advertisement for "Arthur's Home Magazine for 1861. The Ladies' Home Magazine. Volumes XVII and XVIII. Edited by T.S. Arthur and Virginia F. Townsend. Devoted to social literature, art, morals, health, and domestic happiness." (In: Godey's Lady's Book. January 1861. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help))
  15. ^ Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, vol. 45, Philadelphia: T.S. Arthur & Co., January 1877
  16. ^ Phillips' Newspaper Rate-Book. 1884. Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine. Monthly. Literary. Illustrated. Established 1855.
  17. ^ "Timothy Shay Arthur". The Cyclopædia of temperance and prohibition. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1891. OCLC 3666170.
  18. ^ American Newspaper Directory. Rowell. 1872.

Further reading

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  • Arthur's Home Magazine. Philadelphia: T.S. Arthur & Co. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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Images

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  • Arthur's Home Magazine, 1855
    Arthur's Home Magazine, 1855
  • Lady's Home Magazine, 1858
    Lady's Home Magazine, 1858
  • Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, 1880
    Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, 1880
  • Arthur's Home Magazine, 1891
    Arthur's Home Magazine, 1891
  • Arthur's Home Magazine, 1895
    Arthur's Home Magazine, 1895
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