Home Monthly Explained

Home Monthly was a monthly women's magazine published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the late 19th century.

When Home Monthly was established in 1896, it hired Willa Cather as the managing editor of the magazine.^[1] Cather oversaw the publication of 12 issues of the magazine between June 1896 and July 1897. A number of Cather's short stories were published in the magazine during her tenure. (Bradley, 2005)

Home Monthly ceased publication in 1900.^[2]

Contributors

• Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird

Sources

• Jennifer L. Bradley, "To Entertain, To Educate, To Elevate: Cather and the Commodification of Manners at the Home Monthly" in Janis T. Stout (ed., 2005). Willa Cather & Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,) pp. 37–65.

Notes and References

1. Book: Janis P. Stout. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World. 15 May 2020. 29 December 2000. University of Virginia Press. 978-0-8139-3360-3. 50.
2. Peter Benson. Willa Cather at Home Monthly. Biography. Summer 1981. 4. 3. 227–248 . 10.1353/bio.2010.0814 . 162300709 . 29 March 2020.