Cosmopolitan — March 10, 1926

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Cosmopolitan — March 10, 1926

The Cosmopolitan was launched in New York City in March 1886 by the firm of Schlicht & Field as a ‘first-class family magazine.’ By 1889 it had been acquired by the entrepreneur John Brisben Walker, who introduced color illustrations and turned it into one of the leading American literary monthlies. During the late 1890s it serialized H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1897) and The First Men in the Moon (1900), and it published fiction by Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling, and Jack London. In 1905 William Randolph Hearst purchased the magazine and added a wave of investigative reporting by Charles Edward Russell, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and David Graham Phillips. Magazine illustrators during the public-domain period included Harrison Fisher, Dean Cornwell, James Montgomery Flagg, and Francis Attwood. Cosmopolitan’s transformation into a contemporary women’s magazine did not begin until Helen Gurley Brown took the editorship in 1965 — well outside our window.

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Source: Internet Archive (open access). This work is in the public domain in the United States.