Ladies' Home Journal

{{Short description|American magazine (1883–2016)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2014}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Ladies' Home Journal
| image_file = Francesco Scavullo - The Ladies' Home Journal, January 1951.jpg
| image_size = 
| image_caption = January 1951 cover
| editor = Sally Lee
| editor_title = Editor-in-chief
| staff_writer = 
| frequency = 11 issues/year (1883–1910; 1911–2014)<br /> 24 issues a year ({{circa}} 1910–1911)<br />Quarterly (2014–2016)
| total_circulation = 3,267,239<ref>{{cite web |url= http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp |title= eCirc for Consumer Magazines |date= June 30, 2011 |publisher= [[Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |access-date= December 1, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120724165959/http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp |archive-date= July 24, 2012  }}</ref>
| circulation_year = 2011
| category = Women's interest, lifestyle
| company = 
| publisher = [[Meredith Corporation]]
| founded = {{start date|1883}}
| finaldate = 2016
| country = US
| based = [[Des Moines, Iowa]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| issn = 0023-7124
}}

'''''Ladies' Home Journal''''' was an American [[magazine]] last published by the [[Meredith Corporation]]. It was first published on February 16, 1883,<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation|url=http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|work=PSA Research Center|access-date=February 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115225953/http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|archive-date=November 15, 2016}}</ref> and eventually became one of the leading [[women's magazines]] of the 20th century in the United States. In 1891, it was published in Philadelphia by the [[Curtis Publishing Company]]. In 1903, it was the first American magazine to reach one million subscribers.<ref name="santana">{{cite news |author= Marco Santana |date= April 24, 2014 |title= Ladies' Home Journal to Cease Monthly Publication |url= http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2014/04/24/meredith-earnings-fall-37-percent/8089633/ |work= Des Moines Register |access-date= April 24, 2014  |archive-url= https://archive.today/20140424235014/http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2014/04/24/meredith-earnings-fall-37-percent/8089633/ |archive-date= April 24, 2014 }}</ref>

In the late 20th century, changing tastes and competition from television caused it to lose circulation. Sales of the magazine declined as the publishing company struggled. 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".<ref>{{cite press release |date= April 24, 2014 |title= Meredith Reports Fiscal 2014 Third Quarter And Nine Month Results: Local Media Group Delivers Record Revenues and Operating Profit for a Fiscal Third Quarter |url= http://ir.meredith.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=842343 |publisher= Meredith Corporation |via= PRNewswire  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140424212135/http://ir.meredith.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=842343 |archive-date= April 24, 2014 }}</ref> It was then available quarterly on newsstands only, though its website remained in operation.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/business/media/ladies-home-journal-to-become-a-quarterly.html|title=''Ladies' Home Journal'' to Become a Quarterly|last=Cohen|first=Noam|newspaper=New York Times|date=2014-04-25}}</ref> The last issue was published in 2016.

''Ladies' Home Journal'' was one of the [[Seven Sisters (magazines)|Seven Sisters]], as a group of women's service magazines were known. The name was derived from the Greek myth of the "seven sisters", also known as the [[Pleiades]].

==Early history==
[[File:Ladies' Home Journal Vol.8 No.06 (May, 1891).pdf|left|thumb|1891 edition of Ladies' Home Journal]]
''The Ladies' Home Journal'' was developed from a popular double-page supplement in the American newspaper ''Tribune and Farmer'' titled ''Women at Home''.  ''Women at Home'' was written by [[Louisa Knapp Curtis]], wife of the paper's publisher [[Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis|Cyrus H. K. Curtis]].{{When|date=December 2016}}<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url= http://www.scripophily.net/curpubcom.html|work=Curtis Publishing Company|title=Saturday Evening Post & Ladies' Home Journal}}</ref> 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 Knapp dropped the last three words in 1886.<!-- reference came up as 404, unknown --> 

Knapp continued as the magazine's editor till [[Edward William Bok]] succeeded her as ''LHJ'' editor in late 1889. Knapp remained involved with the magazine's management, and she also wrote a column for each issue. In 1892, ''LHJ'' became the first magazine to refuse patent medicine advertisements.<ref>{{cite book |url= http://www.bartleby.com/197/30.html |chapter= 30. Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and Other Evils. |last= Bok |first= Edward William |year= 1921 |title= The Americanization of Edward Bok}}</ref> In 1896, Bok became Louisa Knapp's son-in-law when he married her daughter, [[Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist|Mary Louise Curtis]]. ''LHJ'' rapidly became the leading American magazine of its type, reaching a subscribed circulation of more than one million copies by 1903, the first American magazine to do so.<ref name="santana"/> <!-- Where published? obviously a Midwest magazine -->

Bok served until 1919.  Among features he introduced was the popular "Ruth Ashmore advice column" written by [[Isabel Mallon]].<ref name="ruth1">{{cite news|date= December 28, 1898|url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/12/28/102530031.pdf|title=Ruth Ashmore" Dead: A Well-Known Writer Succumbs to Pneumonia, Following Grip|work= [[The New York Times]]}}</ref>  At the turn of the 20th century, the magazine published the work of [[muckraker]]s and social reformers such as [[Jane Addams]]. In 1901 it published two articles highlighting the early architectural designs of [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=A Home in a Prairie Town|date= February 1901|journal= Ladies' Home Journal}}{{full citation needed|date=April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title= A Small Home with 'Lots of Room in It'|journal=Ladies' Home Journal|date=July 1901}}{{full citation needed|date= April 2014}}</ref>  The December 1909 issue included a comic strip which was the first appearance of [[Kewpie]], created by [[Rose O'Neill]].<ref name="mhs">{{cite web|url=http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/o/oneill/|work=The State Historical Society of Missouri|access-date=August 9, 2013|title=Rose O'Neill|archive-date=April 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420202337/http://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/o/oneill/}}</ref>

Bok introduced business practices at the ''Ladies' Home Journal'' that contributed to its success: low subscription rates, inclusion of advertising to off-set costs, and reliance on popular content. This operating structure was adopted by men's magazines like ''[[McClure's]]'' and [[Munsey's Magazine|''Munsey's'']] roughly a decade after it had become the standard practice of American women's magazines.  Scholars argue that women's magazines, like the ''Ladies' Home Journal'', pioneered these strategies "[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536601594.html magazine revolution]".<ref>{{cite journal |last= Waller-Zuckerman |first= Mary Ellen |title= 'Old Homes, in a City of Perpetual Change': Women's Magazines, 1890-1916 |journal= The Business History Review |volume= 63 |issue= 4 |date= Winter 1989 |pages= 715–756 |doi=10.2307/3115961|jstor= 3115961 |s2cid= 154336370 }}</ref>

There was also a controversial aspect to the magazine during Edward Bok's tenure. He authored more than twenty articles opposed to [[women's suffrage]] which threatened his "vision of the woman at home, living the simple life".<ref>{{cite book |last=Richie |first=Rachel |date=March 22, 2019 |title=Women in Magazines, Research, Representation, Production and Consumption |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5WqaCwAAQBAJ&dq=edward+bok+feminism+ladies+home+journal&pg=PA217 |publisher=Routledge |page=217 |isbn=978-0-367-26395-9}}</ref> He opposed the concept of women working outside the home, [[Woman's club movement|woman's clubs]], and education for women. He wrote that [[feminism]] would lead women to divorce, ill health, and even death. Bok solicited articles against women's rights from former presidents [[Grover Cleveland]] and Theodore Roosevelt (though Roosevelt would later change his mind to become a supporter of women's suffrage). Bok viewed [[suffragists]] as traitors to their sex, saying "there is no greater enemy of woman than woman herself."<ref name=Marshall1997>{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=Susan E. |title=Splintered Sisterhood |url=https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=there+is+no+greater+enemy+of+woman+than+woman+herself+Edward+Bok |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |page=85, 104 |date=1997 |isbn=978-0-299-15463-9 }}</ref>

During World War II, the ''Ladies' Home Journal'' was a particularly favored venue of the government to place articles intended for homemakers, in an effort to keep up morale and support.<ref>{{cite book |author= Emily Yellin |year= 2004 |title= Our Mothers' War |location= New York |publisher= Free Press |page= [https://archive.org/details/ourmotherswarame00yell/page/23 23] |isbn= 0-7432-4514-8 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/ourmotherswarame00yell }}</ref>

The annual subscription price paid for the production of the magazine and its mailing. The profits came from heavy advertising, pitched to families with above-average incomes of $1,000 to $3,000 in 1900.  In the 1910s it carried about a third of the advertising in all women's magazines. By 1929 it had nearly twice as much advertising as any other publication except for the ''[[Saturday Evening Post]],'' which was also published by the Curtis family. The ''Ladies' Home Journal''  was sold to 2 million subscribers in the mid-1920s, grew a little during the depression years, and surged again during post-World War II prosperity. By 1955, each issue sold 4.6 million copies and there were probably 11 million readers.<ref>Ward, "The Geography of the Ladies' Home Journal"</ref>

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==Recent history==
[[File:The Ladies' home journal (1948) (14768384972).jpg|thumb|405x405px|A refrigerator advertisement, 1948]]
The ''Journal'', along with its major rivals, ''[[Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)|Better Homes and Gardens]]'', ''[[Family Circle]]'', ''[[Good Housekeeping]]'', ''[[McCall's]]'', ''[[Redbook]]'' and ''[[Woman's Day]]'', were long known as the "seven sisters", after the prestigious [[Seven Sisters (colleges)|women's colleges]] in the Northeast.<ref>{{cite news |last= Carmody |first= D. |title= Identity Crisis for 'Seven Sisters' |work= The New York Times |date= August 6, 1990 |page=D1}}</ref>  For decades, the ''Journal'' had the greatest circulation of this group, but it fell behind ''McCall's'' in 1961.<ref>{{cite magazine |title= Revolt at Curtis |magazine= Time |date= October 16, 1964 |pages=93–94}}</ref>  By 1968, its circulation was 6.8 million compared to ''McCall's'' 8.5 million. Society was changing and this was reflected in people's magazine choices.

That year, Curtis Publishing sold the ''Ladies' Home Journal'', along with the magazine ''[[The American Home]]'', to Downe Communications for $5.4 million in stock.<ref>{{cite news |last= Bedingfield |first= R. E. |title= Curtis Publishing Sells 2 Magazines; Downe Paying $5.4-Million in Stock |work= The New York Times |date= August 15, 1968 |at= Business and Finance section, p. 54}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title= Too Few Believers |magazine= Time |date= August 23, 1968 |page=67}}</ref> Between 1969 and 1974 Downe was acquired by [[Charter Company]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title= Magna charter |magazine= Time |date= June 16, 1980|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924223,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080408105605/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924223,00.html  |archive-date= April 8, 2008 |page=70}}</ref> In 1982 it sold the magazine to Family Media Inc., publishers of [[Health (magazine)|''Health'']] magazine, when Charter decided to divest its publishing interests.

In March 1970, feminists led by [[Susan Brownmiller]] held an 11-hour sit-in at the ''Ladies' Home Journal''{{'}}s office, with some of them sitting on the desk of editor [[John Mack Carter]], smoking his cigars, and asking him to resign and be replaced by a woman editor.<ref name="gsmNYT11">{{cite web | author=  Leslie Kaufman| date= September 26, 2014| work= The New York Times| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/business/media/john-carter-86-is-dead-led-womens-magazines-.html| title= John Mack Carter, 86, Is Dead; Led 'Big 3' Women's Magazines| access-date= January 14, 2022| quote= …Mr. Carter edited McCall's from 1961 to 1965, Ladies' Home Journal from 1965 to 1974 and Good Housekeeping from 1975 to 1994. … only person to edit all three.… }}</ref> Carter declined to resign but he listened to their grievances, and as a result, they were allowed to produce a section of the magazine that August. They wanted the magazine to recognize a wider variety of choices for women's lives, as well as give greater attention to women's issues such as [[sexual discrimination]] and abortion.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gibson |first=Megan |url=http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2088114_2087975_2087966,00.html |title=The ''Ladies' Home Journal'' Sit-In - A Brief History of Women's Protests|magazine=Time|date=August 12, 2011|access-date=January 28, 2015}}</ref><ref name="gsmNYT11"/> Other activists continued the protests and seem to have achieved some success. They "may not have liberated the Ladies' Home Journal, but they did help change perceptions of how the media could portray women's lives", according to one source.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.history.com/news/women-feminist-protest-ladies-home-journal |title=When Angry Women Staged a Sit-In at the Ladies Home Journal |date=February 11, 2019 |work=History |access-date=February 17, 2023 }}</ref>  

In 1986, the Meredith Corporation acquired the magazine from Family Media for $96 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.meredith.com/aboutmeredith/history.html |title=History of Meredith Corporation  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060703091813/http://www.meredith.com/aboutmeredith/history.html |archive-date=July 3, 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Meredith Won't Tinker with Added Magazines |work= The New York Times |date= November 25, 1985 |edition= Late City Final |at= p. D2, col 5}}</ref> By 1998, the ''Journal'''s circulation had dropped to 4.5 million.<ref>{{cite news |last= Kuczynski |first= A. |title= Some Consumer Magazines Are Getting Real |work= The New York Times |date= November 9, 1998 |page=C1}}</ref>

The magazine debuted an extensive visual and editorial redesign in its March 2012 issue. Photographer [[Brigitte Lacombe]] was hired to shoot cover photos, with [[Kate Winslet]] appearing on the first revamped issue. The ''Journal'' announced that portions of its editorial content would be [[crowdsourcing|crowdsourced]] from readers, who would be fairly compensated for their work.<ref>{{cite news |first= Stefanie |last= Botelho |date= January 10, 2012 |title= Ladies' Home Journal to Move to Reader-Produced Content Model |url= http://www.foliomag.com/2012/ladies-home-journal-move-reader-produced-content-model |work= Folio}}</ref> The arrangement was one of the first of its kind among major consumer magazines.<ref>{{cite news |first= Nat |last= Ives |date= January 9, 2012|title=Ladies' Home Journal Lets Readers Write the Magazine |url= http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/ladies-home-journal-lets-readers-write-magazine/231966/|work= AdvertisingAge}}</ref>

Although the magazine remained very popular, it ran into increasing difficulty attracting advertising. Despite its high subscriber base (3.2 million in 2016), it was not a leader in the women's service category. These factors prompted the decision to end monthly publication.<ref name="emb">{{cite news|author=Emma Bazilian|title=Ladies' Home Journal to Cease Monthly Publication|url=http://www.adweek.com/news/press/ladies-home-journal-shuts-down-157233|access-date=February 6, 2016|work=AdWeek|date=April 24, 2014}}</ref> The magazine was relaunched as a quarterly.<ref name="emb"/> At the same time, the headquarters of the magazine moved from New York City<ref>{{cite book|author1=Kathleen L. Endres|author2=Therese L. Lueck|title=Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sld1Jj0jM7cC&pg=PA172|access-date=February 6, 2016|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28631-5|page=172}}</ref> to [[Des Moines, Iowa]].<ref name="emb"/> Meredith offered its subscribers the chance to transfer their subscriptions to Meredith's sister publications.<ref name=NYT/>

In 2016, Meredith partnered with Grand Editorial to produce Ladies' Home Journal. Only one issue was created.<ref>{{Cite web| last = Sutton| first = Kelsey| title = Grand Editorial to produce Ladies' Home Journal| work = POLITICO Media| date = January 7, 2016| access-date = 2020-04-04| url = http://politi.co/21qiKqj}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| last = Behance| title = Ladies' Home Journal| work = Behance| access-date = 2020-04-04| url = https://www.behance.net/gallery/40360237/Ladies-Home-Journal}}</ref>

==Features==
[[File:Ladies' Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper Vol.6 No.02 (January, 1889).pdf|thumb|upright|''Ladies' Home Journal'' issue from January 1889]]
The most famous cooking teacher of her time, [[Sarah Tyson Rorer]], served as ''LHJ's'' first food editor from 1897 to 1911,<ref>{{cite journal |year= 2008 |title= 125 Years of 'Ladies' Home Journal': Food |journal= Ladies' Home Journal |volume= 125 |issue= 8 |url= http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/125-years-of-ladies-home-journal-food/  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100413173848/http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/125-years-of-ladies-home-journal-food/ |archive-date= April 13, 2010 }}</ref> when she moved to ''[[Good Housekeeping]].''

In 1936, Mary Cookman, wife of ''[[New York Post]]'' editor [[Joseph Cookman]], began working at the ''Ladies' Home Journal.'' In time, she was named its Executive Editor, and she remained with ''LHJ'' till 1963.<ref>NY Times Obituary September 8, 1991{{full citation needed |date= April 2014}}</ref> She was known throughout most of her career as [[Mary Bass]]. Cookman died in 1991.

In 1946, the ''Journal'' adopted the slogan, "Never underestimate the power of a woman", which it continues to use today.<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/125-years-of-ladies-home-journal/ |year= 2008 |title= A Look Back in Covers |journal= Ladies' Home Journal |volume= 125 |issue= 1  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090803070938/http://www.lhj.com/style/covers/125-years-of-ladies-home-journal/ |archive-date= August 3, 2009 }}{{page needed|date= April 2014}}</ref>

The magazine's trademark feature is '''"Can This Marriage Be Saved?"''' In this popular column, each person of a couple in a troubled marriage explains their view of the problem, a [[Relationship counseling|marriage counselor]] explains the solutions offered in counseling,<ref>Traditionally, the wife's side of the story is told first, followed by the husband's side.</ref> and the outcome is published. It was written for 30 years, starting in 1953, by Dorothy D. MacKaye under the name of '''Dorothy Cameron Disney.'''<ref>{{cite news  |last= Weber |first= Bruce |title= Dorothy D. MacKaye Dies at 88; Ladies' Home Journal Columnist |newspaper= The New York Times |date= September 8, 1992 |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0D9113BF93BA3575AC0A964958260}}</ref>  MacKaye co-founded this column with [[Paul Popenoe]], a [[Relationship counseling|founding practitioner of marriage counseling]] in the U.S. The two jointly wrote a book of the same title in 1960. Both the book and the column drew their material from the extensive case files of the American Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="Popenoe (1960)">{{cite book |last1= Popenoe |first1= Paul |last2= Disney |first2= Dorothy Cameron |name-list-style= amp |title= Can This Marriage Be Saved?   |url= https://archive.org/details/CanThisMarrageBeSaved |edition= 1st |year= 1960 |publisher= Macmillan |location= New York |oclc= 1319285 |id= Library of Congress number: 60-8124}}{{page needed|date= April 2014}}</ref> MacKaye died in 1992 at the age of 88. Subsequent writers for the feature have included [[Lois Duncan]] and Margery D. Rosen.

The illustrations of [[William Ladd Taylor]] were featured between 1895 and 1926; the magazine also sold reproductions of his works in oil and [[Water colors|water-color]].<ref name="Taylor">{{cite web |url= http://www.wltaylor.info/bio/bio.htm |last=Chapman |first= John III |title=William Ladd Taylor: Biography |work= W.L. Taylor, American Illustrator |access-date=April 16, 2010}}</ref>

==Editors==
*[[Louisa Knapp Curtis]] (1889-1889)
*[[Edward William Bok]] (1890-1919)
*H. O. Davis (1919-1920)
*[[Barton Currie|Barton W. Currie]] (1920-1928)
*[[Loring Schuler|Loring A. Schuler]] (1928-1935)
*[[Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould |Bruce Gould and Beatrice Gould]] (1935-1962)
*Curtiss Anderson (1962-1964)
*Davis Thomas (1964-1965)
*John Mack Carter (1965-1973)
*Lenore Hershey (1973-1981)
*[[Myrna Blyth]] (1981-2002)<ref name="worley2000">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22386499/genetic_genius_part_2/|title=Genetic Genius|last=Worley|first=Dwight R.|date=23 July 2000|work=The Journal News|access-date=31 July 2018|publisher=Gannett|department=Business|location=White Plains, New York|pages=2&ndash;D|via=Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra)}} Part 1 of the article appears at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22386499/genetic_genius_part_1/ .</ref>
*Diane Salvatore (2002-2008)
*Sally Lee (2008-2014)

==Other notable staff==
*[[Cynthia May Alden]]
*[[Mary Bass]]
*[[Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd]]
*[[Kathryn Casey]]
*Joan Younger Dickinson{{Cn|date=September 2023}}
*[[Florence Morse Kingsley]]
*[[Julia Magruder]]
*[[Isabel Mallon]]
*[[Helen Reimensnyder Martin]]
*[[Jane Nickerson]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Voss |first=Kimberly |date=2014-10-01 |title=Dining Out: New York City Culinary Conversation of James Beard, Jane Nickerson, and Cecily Brownstone |url=https://www.academia.edu/5698263 |journal=[[New York Food Story]]}}</ref>
*[[Sylvia Porter]]
*[[Eben E. Rexford]]
*[[Gene Shalit]]
*[[Mark Sullivan (journalist)|Mark Sullivan]]
*[[Gladys Taber]]
*[[Dorothy Thompson]]
*Olivia Mackenzie Zecy{{Cn|date=September 2023}}

==Cover gallery==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:LadiesHomeJournal1902-07.jpg|July 1902 cover by George Gibbs
File:Ladies home journal 1906 12 a0.jpg|1906 Christmas cover
File:Ladies Home Journal-Vol 30-seq 75.tif|February 1913 cover
File:Ladies Home Journal 1900.jpg|March 1915 cover
File:Ladies Home Journal March 1922.jpg|March 1922 issue illustrated by [[N. C. Wyeth]] <!-- Deleted image removed: File:Parker125.jpg|February 1949 cover, by [[Al Parker (artist)|Al Parker]] -->
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==Further reading==
* Bogardus, Ralph F. "Tea Wars: Advertising Photography and Ideology in the Ladies' Home Journal in the 1890s." ''Prospects'' 16 (1991) pp: 297-322.
* Damon-Moore, Helen. ''Magazines for the millions: Gender and commerce in the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 1880-1910'' (SUNY Press, 1994)  [https://www.questia.com/library/102491415/magazines-for-the-millions-gender-and-commerce-in online]
* Kitch, Carolyn. "The American Woman Series: Gender and Class in The Ladies' Home Journal, 1897." ''Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly'' 75.2 (1998): 243-262.
* Knight, Jan. "The Environmentalism of Edward Bok: The Ladies' Home Journal, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Environment, 1901-09." ''Journalism History'' 29.4 (2004): 154.
* Krabbendam, Hans. ''The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok, 1863-1930'' (Rodopi, 2001)
* Lewis, W. David. "Edward Bok: the editor as entrepreneur." ''Essays in Economic & Business History'' 20 (2012).
* Mott, Frank Luther. ''A history of American magazines. vol 4. 1885-1905'' (Harvard UP, 1957) pp 536–555.  covers ''Ladies Home Journal''.
* Snyder, Beth Dalia. "Confidence women: Constructing female culture and community in" Just Among Ourselves" and the Ladies' Home Journal." ''American Transcendental Quarterly'' 12#4 (1998): 311.
* Steinberg, Salme Harju. ''Reformer in the Marketplace: Edward W. Bok and the Ladies' Home Journal'' (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
* Vogel, Dorothy. "'To Put Beauty into the World': Music Education Resources in The Ladies' Home Journal, 1890–1919." ''Journal of Historical Research in Music Education'' 34.2 (2013): 119-136.  [https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-322903874/to-put-beauty-into-the-world-music-education-resources  online]
* Ward, Douglas B. "The Geography of the Ladies' Home Journal: An Analysis of a Magazine's Audience, 1911-55." ''journalism History'' 34.1 (2008): 2+  [https://www.questia.com/library/1P3-1480935501/the-geography-of-the-ladies-home-journal-an-analysis online]
* Ward, Douglas B. "The reader as consumer: Curtis Publishing Company and its audience, 1910-1930." Journalism History 22.2 (1996): 47+  [https://www.questia.com/library/1P3-10205986/the-reader-as-consumer-curtis-publishing-company  online]

==External links==
*{{commons category-inline|Ladies' Home Journal}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140802210824/http://www.lhj.com/ ''Ladies' Home Journal'' official site]
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000059808 ''The Ladies' Home Journal] at the [[HathiTrust]]
* [http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/womens/ladieshomejournal/ Online archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822140326/http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/womens/ladieshomejournal/ |date=August 22, 2016 }} of the covers of many early issues

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