Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about home economics as well as literary articles. It is well known for the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. The magazine was founded May 2, 1885 by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

The magazine achieved a circulation of 300,000 by 1911, at which time it was bought by Hearst. In 1966 it reached 5,500,000 readers.

Famous writers who have contributed to the magazine include:

• Somerset Maugham
• Edwin Markham
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Frances Parkinson Keyes
• Evelyn Waugh

Good Housekeeping Institute

The Good Housekeeping Institute, founded in 1900 as an "Experiment Station", awards the Good Housekeeping Seal (since 1909) to products advertised in the magazine that are acceptable for publication. It also produces a Buyer's Guide and issues reports.

It advocated for pure food as early as 1905, helping to lead to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. It prohibted the advertising of cigarettes in the magazine in 1952, 12 years before the Surgeon General's warning labels were required.

See also

• Consumer Reports

External links

• Good Housekeeping Magazine
• Good Housekeeping Institute
• Library of Congress page