Woman's Home Companion
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Woman's Home Companion was an American monthly publication, published from 1873 to 1957.
The magazine was founded in Cleveland in 1873. The most influential editor of the Woman's Home Companion was Gertrude Battles Lane, editor in chief of the magazine from 1911 to 1941. Under her directorship each issue featured two serials, four to five short stories, six specials and many monthly departments.[1] Among the contributors to magazine were editor Gene Gauntier, authors Temple Bailey, Ellis Parker Butler (from 1906 through 1935), Arthur Guiterman, Anita Loos, Neysa McMein, John Steinbeck and Kathleen Norris. The notable illustrators included Violet Oakley, Olive Rush and Arthur Sarnoff.
The magazine gained advertising and grew in readership throughout the Battles Lane years, but the size decreased from 1951 (945 pages) to 1956 (544 pages). [2] The situation at Collier's was comparable. Publisher Crowell-Collier sold the American Magazine, its healthier publication, in order to save Collier's and the Companion. Just before Christmas 1956, both ailing publications folded, and 2740 employees, mostly printing workers, were laid off without severance pay or pensions. Collier's and Woman's Home Companion came to an end in January 1957, after the first 1957 issues were distributed.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Bormfield, LH: "The ways we were - Celebrating 250 Years of Magazine Publishing", Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, March 1, 1991
- ^ a b "Crowell-Collier's Christmas", Time Magazine, December 24, 1956
