Louisa Curtis

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Louisa Knapp Curtis, known as Louisa Knapp, was the author of a column, and later, a separate supplement of the magazine Tribune and Farmer. In 1883 Tribune and Farmer was renamed Ladies' Home Journal.

Her column in Tribune and Farmer was titled Women at Home. Ladies Home Journal's original name was The Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper; dropping the last three words from its title in 1886. The magazine became one of the most popular magazines in the United States, reaching a circulation of one million within ten years.

Curtis was the editor of the magazine from its first edition of February 16, 1883 until she turned over the editorship to Edward Bok in 1889. She continued to author a featured column and provided oversight, as she promised her readers.

In 1875 Louisa Knapp married Cyrus Curtis, who was the publisher of The Peoples Lodge, in Boston. After a fire destroyed the business, they moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Curtis founded the Tribune and Farmer, in 1888. In 1890 Curtis founded the Curtis Publishing company, which published several magazines. He also published three national newspapers for a time, through his newspaper company, Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc.

Louisa and Cyrus Curtis had one child, Mary Louise Curtis, who married her mother's successor at the Ladies' Home Journal in 1896. Together, they founded Bok Tower Gardens. Mary Louise Knapp founded the Curtis Institute of Music in 1924. In 1930 Edward Bok died. In 1943 Knapp married the director of the Curtis Institute of Music, Efrem Zimbalist.

The Music School Settlement location on Queen Street in Philadelphia is known as the Mary Louise Curtis Branch.

Louisa Knapp Curtis (October 21, 1851 – February 25, 1910),[1][2] sometimes known only as Louisa Knapp, was the author of a column, and later, the separate supplement included with the magazine, Tribune and Farmer, that in 1883 would become a separate magazine, the Ladies' Home Journal, which is still published.

Her column in the Tribune and Farmer was entitled, Women at Home.[3] The original name of the separate magazine that arose from the popularity of that column was The Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper, but she dropped the last three words from its title in 1886. The magazine became one of the most popular magazines published in the United States, reaching a circulation of one million within ten years.

Curtis remained as the editor of the monthly magazine from its first edition of February 16, 1883 until she turned over the editorship to Edward Bok in 1889, after which she continued to author one featured column and provided a certain amount of oversight, as promised to her readers.

In 1875, Louisa Knapp married Cyrus Curtis when he was the publisher of The Peoples Lodge in Boston. After a fire destroyed that business, they moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876 where her husband founded the Tribune and Farmer and, in 1890, the Curtis Publishing company, which published several magazines. He also published three national level newspapers for a time, through his newspaper company, Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc.

Louisa and Cyrus Curtis had one child, Mary Louise Curtis, who married her mother's successor at the Ladies' Home Journal in 1896 (and with whom she founded Bok Tower Gardens).[4] Mary Louise founded the Curtis Institute of Music in 1924 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. In 1930 Edward Bok died and in 1943 she married the director of the Curtis Institute of Music that she had founded, the renowned violinist, Efrem Zimbalist.

Today a facility on Queen Street in Philadelphia is known as the Mary Louise Curtis Branch

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Journalist, Author. The wife of Philadelphia publishing magnate Charles H. K. Curtis, she contributed a column titled "Women At Home" in her husband's magazine "Tribune and Farmer". The column became so popular that it spawned a separate magazine in 1883 that became known as "The Ladies Home Journal". Read by over a million subscribers at it's height, she served as the magazine's editor from 1883 to 1889.