Good Housekeeping

"Good Housekeeping" is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. It is well known for the "Good Housekeeping Seal," popularly known as the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval."

The magazine was founded May 2, 1885 by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

The magazine achieved a circulation of 300,000 by 1911, at which time it was bought by the Hearst Corporation. In 1966 it reached 5,500,000 readers.

The Hearst Corporation created a British edition along the same lines in 1922.

Famous writers who have contributed to the magazine include Somerset Maugham, Edwin Markham, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Parkinson Keyes, A. J. Cronin, Virginia Woolf, and Evelyn Waugh.

Good Housekeeping Research Institute

In 1900, the "Experiment Station", the predecessor to the Good Housekeeping Research Institute (GHRI), was founded.

The formal opening of the headquarters of GHRI - the Model Kitchen, Testing Station for Household Devices, and Domestic Science Laboratory - occurred in January 1910. [ [http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/products/100-anniversary-GHRI-1001 "The 100th Anniversary of the Good Housekeeping Research Institute"] , "Good Housekeeping", retrieved January 12, 2008]

In 1909, the magazine established the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Products advertised in the magazine that bear the seal are tested by GHRI and are backed by a two-year limited warranty. About 5,000 products have been given the seal.Walter Nicholls, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/01/AR2008010100642_pf.html "Surviving the Test of Time: At Good Housekeeping, A Modern Makeover And Old-Fashioned Appeal"] , "Washington Post", January 2, 2008]

In April 1912, a year after Hearst bought the magazine, Harvey W. Wiley, the first commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1907-1912), became head of GHRI. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F06EEDA1F31E233A25755C2A9629C946396D6CF "Dr. Wiley's Debut as Editor; He Says He Will Be a Watchdog for the Nation's Housekeepers"] , "New York Times", April 26, 1912]

Social activism

The magazine advocated for pure food as early as 1905, helping to lead to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. It prohibited the advertising of cigarettes in the magazine in 1952, 12 years before the Surgeon General's warning labels were required on cigarette packs. During the 1930s, it endorsed the Ludlow Amendment, which sought to require that any declaration of war, except in the event of an invasion, be ratified by a direct vote of the citizenry.

See also

* "Consumer Reports"
* Nat Mags (UK publisher)

References

External links

Official websites:
* [http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/ U.S. edition] , including the [http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/consumer/institute/articles/0,,284511_290570,00.html Good Housekeeping Institute]
* [https://www.kable.com/pub/buhg/subservices.asp Official subscription site spanish edition BuenHogar]
* [http://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/ U.K. edition] , including the [http://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/ghi-info.php Good Housekeeping Institute]
* [http://www.goodhouse.ru/ Russian edition] From the Library of Congress:
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cool:@field(NUMBER+@band(gh1))::bibLink=r?ammem/coolbib%3A@field(TITLE+@od1(Good+housekeeping+%3A+)) February 1926 issue] (262 pages)
* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may02.html Today in History: May 2] , featuring "Good Housekeeping"