''Arthur's Home Magazine'' (1852 – ) or ''Ladies' Home Magazine'' was an American periodical published in
Philadelphia
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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.
In its early years, the monthly contained a selection of articles originally published in Arthur's weekly ''Home Gazette''.
Its non-fiction stories contained occasional factual inaccuracies for the sake of a good read. 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." Readers included patrons of the
Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco.
Author
Rosella Rice, best known for her writings about
Johnny Appleseed
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, 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), Aunt Chatty Brooks (eccentric hotelier), and Mrs. Sam Starkey (elderly busybody).
The characters, likely created for ''Arthur's'', "inhabited her magazine's stories, and became 'real' to hundreds of readers".
Alternate titles
* ''Arthur's Home Magazine''
* ''Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine''
* ''Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine''
* ''The Home Magazine''
* ''Ladies' Home Magazine''
[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: )]
* ''Lady's Home Magazine''
References
Further reading
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v.1 1852–1853
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v.15 1860
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v.48 1880
External links
{{commons category, Arthur's Home Magazine
* Hathi Trust
''Lady's Home Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion''* Hathi Trust
''Arthur's Home Magazine''
Images
Image:1855 Arthurs Home Magazine v5 no5.png, ''Arthur's Home Magazine'', 1855
Image:1858 Ladys Home Magazine v11 no5 Philadelphia.png, ''Lady's Home Magazine'', 1858
Image:1880 Arthurs Illustrated Home Magazine v48 no4.jpg, ''Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine'', 1880
Image:1891 Arthurs Home Magazine October.png, ''Arthur's Home Magazine'', 1891
Image:1895 Arthurs Home Magazine New York March.png, ''Arthur's Home Magazine'', 1895
1852 establishments in Pennsylvania
1898 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Defunct women's magazines published in the United States
History of women in Pennsylvania
Magazines established in 1852
Magazines disestablished in 1898
Magazines published in Philadelphia