This nostalgic record of bygone days features material from the Christmas issues of "Good Housekeeping" magazine, 1922 to 1962. Recipes, fables, gift ideas and articles by writers such as Somerset Maugham and Rose Macaulay provide a panoramic view of changing attitudes, fashions and lifestyles.
Drawing on some of the articles and advertisements which appeared in "Good Housekeeping" magazine between 1922 and 1939, this book paints a picture of home life and the work involved in maintaining a household at that time. It charts the revolution which took place in the Twenties as young women, deprived of the servants their mother had enjoyed, ...
A collection of articles, recipes and advertisements from the first 20 years of "Good Housekeeping" magazine. The advertisements offer a glimpse both of famous names which still survive today such as Homepride, Oxo, Horlicks, Bovril, Heinz and St Ivel, and those which have long since dissapeared. The book contains over 280 recipes and over 100 ...
From the author of an acclaimed study on women's magazines, who was a director of Conde Nast, comes the definitive history of one of the most enduring but ever-changeable consumer items of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries - newspapers and magazines. The Press Book details the triumphs and travails of the popular post-war press, with a ...
The fifth "Good Housekeeping" nostalgia book, compiled from the amusing and factual articles featured in the magazine during the 1920s and 1930s. The household advice dispensed by the experts at "Good Housekeeping" ranges from the removal of grease spots from navy serge (using eucalyptus) and new uses for old hot water bottles, to the cleaning of ...
This book presents the best of Good Housekeeping during the Second World War and is a portrait of a changing world. It contains a selection of articles written by well-known personalities of the day such as Lloyd George, Daphne du Maurier, John Steinbeck and C.S. Forester. Sound advice on coping with rationing, air raids, loneliness and sometimes ...
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