Tasting and Testing Books: Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading

by Amy L. Blair

In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns for the magazine between 1926 and 1934. During this period, Good Housekeeping became the most widely circulated periodical in the United States, doubling its circulation to over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625348207
• ISBN13: 9781625348203
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 280 Pages