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Cyrus initial authored the ''Women and Home'' column in the ''Tribune and Farmer'' weekly newspaper. It was originally developed from articles clipped from other sources and surrounded by advertisements directed toward women. Louisa convinced her husband that she could do a better job and write original content geared toward women. The column proved extremely popular and soon grew to fill a full page. The Curtises decided to publish a monthly supplement that would be included in the ''Tribune and Farmer''. The first issue of the supplement, written by Louisa under her maiden name and published by her husband, was released in December 1883. |
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She became the editor of the magazine ''Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper'' in 1883 and shortened the name to ''Ladies' Home Journal'' in 1886. |
She became the editor of the magazine ''Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper'' in 1883 and shortened the name to ''Ladies' Home Journal'' in 1886. |
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Louisa Knapp Curtis (October 21, 1851 – February 25, 1910),[1][2] (also known as Louisa Knapp), was an American columnist and editor who worked as the first editor for Ladies Home Journal from 1883 to 1889. It became one of the most popular magazines published in the United States[3] and reached a circulation of one million within ten years. Curtis turned over the editorship to Edward Bok in 1889 but she continued to author a column and provide oversight.
She was married to Cyrus Curtis, head of the Curtis Publishing Company, and started her writing career as the author of the popular Women's page supplement Women at Home for the magazine Tribune and Farmer.
Early life
In 1875, Louisa Knapp married Cyrus Curtis when he was the publisher of The Peoples Ledger in Boston. Louisa was working as a private secretary for Samuel Gridley Howe, a promiment Boston physician and husband of women's suffrage activist Julia Ward Howe.[4] They met while singing in a concert to celebrate the end of the Civil War.[5] After a fire destroyed the Boston publishing plant, they moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876 where her husband founded the Tribune and Farmer.[6]
Career
Cyrus initial authored the Women and Home column in the Tribune and Farmer weekly newspaper. It was originally developed from articles clipped from other sources and surrounded by advertisements directed toward women. Louisa convinced her husband that she could do a better job and write original content geared toward women. The column proved extremely popular and soon grew to fill a full page. The Curtises decided to publish a monthly supplement that would be included in the Tribune and Farmer. The first issue of the supplement, written by Louisa under her maiden name and published by her husband, was released in December 1883.
She became the editor of the magazine Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper in 1883 and shortened the name to Ladies' Home Journal in 1886.
She died on February 25, 1910 in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania and is interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.[7]
Family
Louisa and Cyrus Curtis had one child, Mary Louise Curtis, who married Edward Bok in 1896 (and with whom she founded Bok Tower Gardens).[8] Mary Louise founded the Curtis Institute of Music in 1924[9] as well as, after the death of her father in 1933, the Curtis Hall Arboretum at the family residence, and the Curtis Center in the building from which her mother's magazine was published.
Citations
- ^ Anonymous. After Curtis Time magazine, Monday, Jul. 17, 1933. TIME.com
- ^ Stoddard, Maynard Good (1 January 2000). "A Legacy of Music. The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia". The Saturday Evening Post.
- ^ Damon-Moore 1994, p. 32.
- ^ Damon-Moore 1994, p. 16.
- ^ Krabbendam, Hans (2001). The Model Man: A LIfe of Edward William Bok, 1863-1930. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi. p. 55. ISBN 90-420-1495-4. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- ^ Howells, Derek M. "Cyrus H.K. Curtis". www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ "Louisa Knapp Curtis". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ^ Hamersly, Lewis R. (1904). Who's who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. L.R. Hamersly & Co. p. 66.
- ^ "History". www.curtis.edu. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
Sources
- Damon-Moore, Helen (1994). Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 1880-1910. State University of New York Press; Albany. ISBN 0-7914-2057-4.
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