Good Housekeeping

==History and profile==
[[File:Good Housekeeping masthead Vol I No 1 (1885).png|right|thumb|Masthead for the first issue of ''Good Housekeeping'', May 2, 1885]]
On May 2, 1885, [[Clark W. Bryan]] founded ''Good Housekeeping'' in [[Holyoke, Massachusetts]] as a fortnightly magazine.<ref name="founding">{{cite news|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sWoaAAAAIBAJ&pg=5113,4715939|title=Good Housekeeping's Seal Stamps Its Approval | last = Belkin | first = Lisa |work=[[Milwaukee Journal]] |date= June 15, 1985 |access-date=June 18, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation | date = n.d. |url=http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf |work=PSA Research Center |access-date=February 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128021733/http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|archive-date=January 28, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>  The magazine became a monthly publication in 1891.<ref name="Encyclopedia.com">{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/good-housekeeping|title=Good Housekeeping | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia.com | date = July 23, 2020 |access-date= August 2, 2020}}</ref>

The magazine achieved a circulation of 300,000 by 1911, at which time it was bought by the [[Hearst Corporation]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Magda | last = Ibrahim |title=Magazines ABCs: Women's monthlies led by Good Housekeeping |url=http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/article/1333610/magazines-abcs-womens-monthlies-led-good-housekeeping |access-date=April 24, 2016 |work=MediaWeek |date=February 12, 2015}}</ref> It topped one million in the mid-1920s, and continued to rise, even during the [[Great Depression]] and its aftermath.  In 1938, a year in which the magazine advertising dropped 22 percent, ''Good Housekeeping'' showed an operating profit of $2,583,202, more than three times the profit of Hearst's other eight magazines combined,<ref>''Printers' Ink'', Vol. 186, March 16, 1939, pg. 16.</ref> and probably the most profitable monthly of its time.  Circulation topped 2,500,000 in 1943, 3,500,000 in the mid-1950s, 5,000,000 in 1962, and 5,500,000 per month in 1966.  1959 profits were more than $11 million.<ref>{{cite book | last = Mott | first = Frank Luther | title = A History of American Magazines | year = 1968 | publisher = Harvard University Press | pages = 140–143}}</ref>

''Good Housekeeping'' was one of the "[[Seven Sisters (magazines)|Seven Sisters]]", a group of women's service magazines,<ref name="Encyclopedia.com" /> and is one of the three of them still published in print.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

In 1922, the Hearst Corporation created a British edition along the same lines, named ''British Good Housekeeping''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thewebbizzare.com/best-ugly-christmas-holiday-sweaters-for-both-men-women/ |title=Good Housekeeping Institute: meet the team testing every item in your home |last=Hart |first=Carolyn |journal=Daily Telegraph |date=October 24, 2014 |access-date= December 4, 2019 |language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

Famous writers who have contributed to the magazine include [[A. J. Cronin]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nugent|first=Frank S.|date=9 March 1940|title=THE SCREEN; 'Vigil in the Night,' a Sobersided Drama of Nursing, Opens at the Roxy--'Three Cheers for the Irish'|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/03/09/archives/the-screen-vigil-in-the-night-a-sobersided-drama-of-nursing-opens-a.html|access-date=2 December 2021|quote=VIGIL IN THE NIGHT, from the novel by A. J. Cronin published serially in Good Housekeeping Magazine...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Davies|first=Alan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NoJjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150|title=A.J. Cronin|date=2018-01-01|publisher=Alma Books|isbn=978-0-7145-4541-7|pages=150|language=en}}</ref> [[Betty Friedan]],<ref name=PostalMuseum /> [[Frances Parkinson Keyes]],<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url =  https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Keyes_Frances_Parkinson_1885-1970#start_entry | title = Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885–1970) | first = Jane Greenway | last = Carr | date = April 7, 2016 | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia Virginia | publisher = Virginia Humanities | access-date = August 2, 2020}}</ref> [[Clara Littledale|Clara Savage Littledale]],<ref>{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19370907&id=_c0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jmoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2431,5103014 | title = Mother of Two Children, She Helped Raise A Million More: Former Newspaper Woman Directs Staff of Experts Who Write Magazine on Child Rearing Read by Five Hundred Thousand Parents | date = September 7, 1937 | page = 15A | work = [[Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)|Lewiston Sun-Journal]] | access-date = August 2, 2020}}</ref> [[Edwin Markham]],{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} [[Somerset Maugham]],<ref name=ModJourn>{{cite web | url = https://modjourn.org/journal/good-housekeeping/ | title = Good Housekeeping, 1910 | date = n.d. | work = Modernist Journals Project | publisher = [[Brown University]] and [[University of Tulsa]] | access-date = August 2, 2020}}</ref><ref name=PostalMuseum>{{Cite web|url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/americasmailingindustry/Good-Housekeeping.html |title=Good Housekeeping |work =America's Mailing Industry | publisher = [[National Postal Museum]], [[Smithsonian Institution]] | access-date = August 2, 2020}}</ref> [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]],<ref name=ModJourn /><ref name=PostalMuseum /> [[J. D. Salinger]],<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Salinger |first=J. D. |date=February 1948 |title=A Girl I Knew |magazine=Good Housekeeping |publisher=Hearst Communications, Inc. }}</ref> [[Evelyn Waugh]],<ref name=ModJourn /> and [[Virginia Woolf]].<ref name=ModJourn /> Other contributors include [[advice column]]ists, [[chefs]], and [[politicians]].<ref name=PostalMuseum />