The Ladies’ Home Journal
March 2009 cover of Ladies' Home Journal featuring Ellen DeGeneres
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| Editor-in-chief | Sally Lee |
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| Categories | Women's interest, lifestyle |
| Frequency | 11 issues/year (1883-1910; 1911-2014) 24 issues a year (ca. 1910-1911) Quarterly (2014-present) |
| Publisher | Meredith Corporation |
| Total circulation (2011) |
3,267,239 |
| Year founded | 1883 |
| Country | US |
| Based in | Des Moines, Iowa |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0023-7124 |
Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine published by the Meredith Corporation. It first appeared on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States. It was the first American magazine to reach 1 million subscribers in 1903. On April 24, 2014, Meredith announced it would stop publishing the magazine as a monthly with the July issue, stating it was "transitioning Ladies' Home Journal to a special interest publication". It is now available quarterly on newsstands only, though its website remains in operation.
Ladies' Home Journal was one of the Seven Sisters, a group of women's service magazines.
The Ladies' Home Journal arose from a popular double-page supplement in the American magazine Tribune and Farmer titled Women at Home. Women at Home was written by Louisa Knapp Curtis, wife of the magazine's publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis. After a year it became an independent publication with Knapp as editor for the first six years. Its original name was The Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper, but she dropped the last three words in 1886. It rapidly became the leading American magazine of its type, reaching a circulation of more than one million copies in ten years.Edward W. Bok took over the editorship in late 1889 until 1919. Among features he introduced was the popular Ruth Ashmore advice column written by Isabel Mallon. At the turn of the 20th century, the magazine published the work of muckrakers and social reformers such as Jane Addams. In 1901 it published two articles highlighting the early architectural designs of Frank Lloyd Wright.
During World War II, it was a particularly favored venue of the government for messages intended for homemakers.
In March 1970, feminists held an 11-hour sit-in at the Ladies' Home Journal's office, which resulted in them getting the opportunity to produce a section of the magazine that August.
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