_-_January_1936.jpg) Cover by Władysław T. Benda for the January 1936 issue | |
| Categories | Women's magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founder | S.L. and Frederick Thorpe |
| Founded | 1873 |
| Final issue | January 1957 |
| Company | Crowell-Collier |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Springfield, Ohio |
| Language | English |
Woman's Home Companion was an American monthly magazine, published from 1873 to 1957.[1] It was highly successful, climbing to a circulation peak of more than four million during the 1930s and 1940s. The magazine, headquartered in Springfield, Ohio, was discontinued in 1957.[2][3]
Among the contributors to the magazine were editor Gene Gauntier, and authors Temple Bailey, Ellis Parker Butler, Rachel Carson, Arthur Guiterman, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Anita Loos, Neysa McMein, Kathleen Norris, Sylvia Schur, John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Frank Albert Waugh and P. G. Wodehouse. Notable illustrators included Rolf Armstrong, Władysław T. Benda, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Bessie Pease Gutmann, Rico Lebrun, Neysa McMein, Violet Oakley, Herbert Paus, May Wilson Preston, Olive Rush, Arthur Sarnoff and Frederic Dorr Steele.
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