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{{Short description|American magazine}}
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| publisher = Pettengill, Bates & Company (1868-70); [[Orange Judd]] & Company (1870-74); Daily Graphic Co. (1874-75)
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| frequency = Weekly
| language = [[American English]]
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| editor = [[Donald Grant Mitchell|Donald G. Mitchell]] and [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] (initial editors)
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| firstdate = December 26, 1868
| country = United States
| based = New York City
| lastdate = December 25, 1875
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[[File:Hearth_and_Home_MET_MM85803.jpg|thumb|right|Cover from Hearth and Home]]
'''''Hearth and Home''''' was an American weekly illustrated [[magazine]] which was published from 1868 to 1875.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Mielewczik |first1=Michael |last2=Jowett |first2=Kelly |last3=Moll |first3=Janine |year=2019 |title=Beehives, Booze and Suffragettes: The "Sad Case" of Ellen S. Tupper (1822–1888), the "Bee Woman" and "Iowa Queen Bee" |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34657.04962 |journal=Entomologie Heute |volume=31 |pages=113–227|doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.34657.04962 }}</ref> It appeared Saturdays and had a claimed circulation of 40,000 copies in 1869.<ref name=":0" />
==Founding and editors==
The advertising company of Pettengill, Bates & Company founded the publication, which had a debut issue dated December 26, 1868.<ref name="ad1">(26 December 1868). [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1868/12/26/87584888.pdf Hearth and Home], ''[[The New York Times]]'' (compilation of positive review excerpts of first issue)</ref>  The original editors were [[Donald Grant Mitchell|Donald G. Mitchell]] and [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]], joined by [[Mary Mapes Dodge]] and Joseph B. Lyman as associate editors.  Lyman and Stowe left after a year, though Stowe's association with the periodical is the primary reason it receives any modern attention.  Dodge, who oversaw the children's pages, remained until 1873 when she became the first editor of ''[[St. Nicholas Magazine]]''.  Later editors included [[Edward Eggleston|Edward]] and [[George Cary Eggleston]] and [[Frank R. Stockton]].
==Subsequent owners==
The publication was never a financial success; George Cary Eggleston later wrote that it was "very ambitious in its projection, very distinguished in the persons of its editors and contributors, and a financial failure from the beginning."<ref name="cary11">Eggleston, George Cary. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Nvc-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131 Recollections of a Varied Life], pp. 131-33 (1910)</ref>  [[Orange Judd]] & Company purchased the magazine in October 1870, and subsequently sold it to the owners of the New York ''[[Daily Graphic]]'' (a publication also committed to quality illustrations) in 1874.<ref name="twain">[https://books.google.com/books?id=T7Kag69deVwC&pg=PA105 Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5: 1872-1873], p. 105 (1997)</ref>  After seven years, the magazine ceased publication with its December 25, 1875 issue.<ref name="mott"/>
==Content==
Though the publication started out covering both agriculture and literature, it eventually became a "home literary miscellany."<ref name="mott">Mott, Frank Luther.  ''A History of American Magazine, 1865-1885'', p. 99 (1938)</ref>  It did serialize some notable works including [[Edward Payson Roe]]'s ''A Chestnut Burr'' and Edward Eggleston's ''[[The Hoosier Schoolmaster (novel)|The Hoosier Schoolmaster]]''.<ref name="mott"/><ref name="stowe2">Robbins, Sarah [https://books.google.com/books?id=QrjDZ1UewuAC&pg=PA45 Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism: Reader Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and Home Prescriptions for Women's Writing], ''in'' The Only Efficient Instrument: American Women Writers & The Periodical (Cane, Aleta Feinsod & Susan Alves, eds.) (2001)</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Magazines established in 1868]]
[[Category:Magazines disestablished in 1875]]
[[Category:Defunct women's magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Weekly magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Defunct English-language magazines]]
[[Category:Defunct magazines published in New York City]]