Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine

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Arthur's Home Magazine (1852 – {{circa|1898}}) or Ladies' Home Magazine was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur. Editors Arthur and Virginia Frances Townsend selected writing and illustrations intended to appeal to female readers. Among the contributors were Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Rosella Rice, and Kate Sutherland.{{cite journal|title=The Feminized Civil War: Gender, Northern Popular Literature, and the Memory of the War, 1861-1900|author=Alice Fahs|journal= Journal of American History|volume=85|year= 1999}}

In its early years, the monthly contained a selection of articles originally published in Arthur's weekly Home Gazette.{{cite journal|title=Philadelphia Magazines for Ladies: 1830-1860|author= Bertha Monica Stearns|journal= Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography|volume= 69|year= 1945}}{{cite web|url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026156/|title= About Arthur's home gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1850-1855|location=Washington DC|work=US Newspaper Directory|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=March 27, 2013}} Its non-fiction stories contained occasional factual inaccuracies for the sake of a good read.{{Citation|publisher=Lehigh University Press|location=Bethlehem|author=Dorothy Bundy Turner Potter|title=Food for Apollo: cultivated music in antebellum Philadelphia|date=2010|ol=24902445M}} A contemporary review judged it "gotten up in good taste and well; and is in nothing overdone. Even its fashion plates are not quite such extravagant caricatures of rag-baby work as are usually met with in some of the more fancy magazines."{{cite journal|journal=Wisconsin Farmer and North-Western Cultivator|year=1857}} Readers included patrons of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco.{{cite journal|title=Annual report of the president of the Mercantitle Library Association of San Francisco|url= http://eptember11.archive.org/stream/annualreporto18531863merc#page/n3/mode/2up|year =1855}}

Author Rosella Rice, best known for her writings about Johnny Appleseed, contributed countless stories, humorous essays, tutorials, and poems to the magazine. Writing from the perspective of various comedic characters, she adopted pseudonyms including Pipsissiway Potts (responsible homemaker),{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-y8ZAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22pipsissiway+potts%22&pg=PA53 |title=Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine |date=1875 |publisher=T.S. Arthur & Sons |language=en}} Aunt Chatty Brooks (eccentric hotelier),{{Cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=James Grant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f6oLAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22rosella+rice%22+%22chatty+brooks%22&pg=PA290 |title=Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography |last2=Fiske |first2=John |date=1901 |publisher=D. Appleton |pages=290 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Barile |first=Mary Collins |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wKR2CQAAQBAJ&dq=%22rosella+rice%22+%22chatty+brooks%22&pg=PT60 |title=Hooked Rugs of the Midwest: A Handcrafted History |date=2013-05-28 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-61423-948-2 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3Gh0fV99bAC&dq=%22rosella+rice%22+%22chatty+brooks%22&pg=PA15 |title=App. II, 1925? (1 .) ; III, 1928 (9 p.) ; [IV] 1931 (7 p.) : V, 1934 (9 p.) |date=1924 |publisher=W. Abbatt |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UdYNAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22chatty+brooks%22&pg=PA15 |title=The Colloquial Who's who: An Attempt to Identify the Many Authors, Writers and Contributors who Have Used Pen-names, Initials, Etc. (1600-1924), Also a List of Sobriquets, Nicknames, Epigrams, Oddities, War Phrases, Etc |date=1924 |publisher=W. Abbatt |language=en}} and Mrs. Sam Starkey (elderly busybody).{{Cite web |date=2016-03-22 |title=Rosella Rice - more information |url=http://www.rosellarice.com/index_files/Page552.htm |access-date=2022-06-26 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322134056/http://www.rosellarice.com/index_files/Page552.htm |archive-date=22 March 2016 |url-status=dead}} The characters, likely created for Arthur's, "inhabited her magazine's stories, and became 'real' to hundreds of readers".{{Cite web |last=cavin |first=lee |title=Conversation: Perrysville's Rosella Rice: A liberated woman before women's lib |url=https://www.times-gazette.com/story/news/2012/11/06/conversation-perrysville-s-rosella-rice/19385406007/ |access-date=2022-06-27 |website=Ashland Times-Gazette |language=en-US}}