''Hearth and Home'' was an American weekly illustrated

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which was published from 1868 to 1875.

Founding and editors

The advertising company of Pettengill, Bates & Company founded the publication, which had a debut issue dated December 26, 1868.(26 December 1868)
Hearth and Home
'' The New York Times'' (compilation of positive review excerpts of first issue) The original editors were Donald G. Mitchell and

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, joined by Mary Mapes Dodge and Joseph B. Lyman as associate editors. Lyman and Stowe left after a year, though Stowe's association with the periodical is the primary reason it receives any modern attention. Dodge, who oversaw the children's pages, remained until 1873 when she became the first editor of ''

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''. Later editors included

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and George Cary Eggleston and

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Subsequent owners

The publication was never a financial success; George Cary Eggleston later wrote that it was "very ambitious in its projection, very distinguished in the persons of its editors and contributors, and a financial failure from the beginning."Eggleston, George Cary
Recollections of a Varied Life
pp. 131-33 (1910)

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& Company purchased the magazine in October 1870, and subsequently sold it to the owners of the New York '' Daily Graphic'' (a publication also committed to quality illustrations) in 1874.Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5: 1872-1873
p. 105 (1997) After seven years, the magazine ceased publication with its December 25, 1875 issue.

Content

Though the publication started out covering both agriculture and literature, it eventually became a "home literary miscellany."Mott, Frank Luther. ''A History of American Magazine, 1865-1885'', p. 99 (1938) It did serialize some notable works including

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's ''A Chestnut Burr'' and Edward Eggleston's '' The Hoosier Schoolmaster''.Robbins, Sara
Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism: Reader Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and Home Prescriptions for Women's Writing
''in'' The Only Efficient Instrument: American Women Writers & The Periodical (Cane, Aleta Feinsod & Susan Alves, eds.) (2001)

References

{{Reflist Magazines established in 1868 Magazines disestablished in 1875 Defunct women's magazines published in the United States Weekly magazines published in the United States English-language magazines Magazines published in New York City