Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine Explained

Arthur's Home Magazine (1852 –) 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. 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."^[4] Readers included patrons of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco.^[5]

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),^[6] Aunt Chatty Brooks (eccentric hotelier),^{[7] [8] [9] [10]} and Mrs. Sam Starkey (elderly busybody).^[11] The characters, likely created for Arthur's, "inhabited her magazine's stories, and became 'real' to hundreds of readers".^[12]

Alternate titles

• Arthur's Home Magazine
• Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine^{[13] [14]}
• Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine^[15]
• The Home Magazine
• Ladies' Home Magazine^[16]
• Lady's Home Magazine

Further reading

• Arthur's Home Magazine . Philadelphia . T.S. Arthur & Co. .
  • v.1, 1852–1853
  • v.15, 1860
  • v.48, 1880

External links

• Hathi Trust. Lady's Home Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion
• Hathi Trust. Arthur's Home Magazine

Notes and References

1. The Feminized Civil War: Gender, Northern Popular Literature, and the Memory of the War, 1861-1900. Alice Fahs. Journal of American History. 85. 1999.
2. Philadelphia Magazines for Ladies: 1830-1860. Bertha Monica Stearns. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 69. 1945.
3. Web site: About Arthur's home gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1850-1855]. Washington DC. US Newspaper Directory. Library of Congress. March 27, 2013.
4. Wisconsin Farmer and North-Western Cultivator. 1857.
5. Annual report of the president of the Mercantitle Library Association of San Francisco. 1855.
6. Book: Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine . 1875 . T.S. Arthur & Sons . en.
7. Book: Wilson . James Grant . Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography . Fiske . John . 1901 . D. Appleton . 290 . en.
8. Book: Barile, Mary Collins . Hooked Rugs of the Midwest: A Handcrafted History . 2013-05-28 . Arcadia Publishing . 978-1-61423-948-2 . en.
9. Book: App. II, 1925? (1 .) ; III, 1928 (9 p.) ; [IV] 1931 (7 p.) : V, 1934 (9 p.) ]. 1924 . W. Abbatt . en.
10. Book: 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 . 1924 . W. Abbatt . en.
11. Web site: 2016-03-22 . Rosella Rice - more information . 2022-06-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160322134056/http://www.rosellarice.com/index_files/Page552.htm . 22 March 2016 . dead.
12. Web site: cavin . lee . Conversation: Perrysville's Rosella Rice: A liberated woman before women's lib . 2022-06-27 . Ashland Times-Gazette . en-US.
13. Book: 1884 . Phillips' Newspaper Rate-Book . Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine. Monthly. Literary. Illustrated. Established 1855. .
14. Book: https://archive.org/stream/cu31924050620180#page/n39/mode/1up . Timothy Shay Arthur . Funk & Wagnalls . New York . The Cyclopædia of temperance and prohibition . 1891 . 3666170 .
15. Book: American Newspaper Directory . Rowell . 1872 .
16. 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: . January 1861 .)