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[[Image:Good housekeeping 1908 08 a.jpg|thumb|right|Cover from August 1908.]]
[[Image:GoodHousekeepingJuly1967.JPG|thumb|right|Cover from July 1967.]]
'''''Good Housekeeping''''' is a women's [[magazine]] owned by the [[Hearst Corporation]], featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. It is well known for the "Good Housekeeping Seal," popularly known as 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 the [[Hearst Corporation]]. In [[1966]] it reached 5,500,000 readers.
The Hearst Corporation created a [[United Kingdom|British]] edition along the same lines in [[1922]].
Famous writers who have contributed to the magazine include [[Somerset Maugham]], [[Edwin Markham]], [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], [[Frances Parkinson Keyes]], [[A. J. Cronin]], Virginia Woolf and [[Evelyn Waugh]].
== Good Housekeeping Research Institute == <!-- [[Harvey W. Wiley]] links to this section; please change that article if you change this section heading -->
In 1900, the "Experiment Station", the predecessor to the Good Housekeeping Research Institute (GHRI), was founded.
The formal opening of the headquarters of GHRI - the Model Kitchen, Testing Station for Household Devices, and Domestic Science Laboratory - occurred in January 1910.<ref>[http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/products/100-anniversary-GHRI-1001 "The 100th Anniversary of the Good Housekeeping Research Institute"], ''Good Housekeeping'', retrieved January 12, 2008</ref>
In 1909, the magazine established the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Products advertised in the magazine that bear the seal are tested by GHRI and are backed by a two-year limited warranty. About 5,000 products have been given the seal.<ref name="WP2008">Walter Nicholls, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/01/AR2008010100642_pf.html "Surviving the Test of Time: At Good Housekeeping, A Modern Makeover And Old-Fashioned Appeal"], ''Washington Post'', January 2, 2008</ref>
In April 1912, a year after Hearst bought the magazine, [[Harvey W. Wiley]], the first commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1907-1912), became head of GHRI.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F06EEDA1F31E233A25755C2A9629C946396D6CF "Dr. Wiley's Debut as Editor; He Says He Will Be a Watchdog for the Nation's Housekeepers"], ''New York Times'', April 26, 1912</ref>
== Social activism ==
The magazine advocated for pure food as early as [[1905]], helping to lead to the [[1906]] [[Pure Food and Drug Act]]. It prohibited the advertising of [[cigarette]]s in the magazine in [[1952]], 12 years before the [[Surgeon General]]'s warning labels were required on cigarette packs. During the 1930s, it endorsed the [[Ludlow Amendment]], which sought to require that any [[declaration of war]], except in the event of an invasion, be ratified by a direct vote of the citizenry.
== See also ==
* ''[[Consumer Reports]]''
== References ==
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== External links ==
Official websites:
* [http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/ U.S. edition], including the [http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/consumer/institute/articles/0,,284511_290570,00.html Good Housekeeping Institute]
* [https://www.kable.com/pub/buhg/subservices.asp Official subscription site spanish edition BuenHogar]
* [http://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/ U.K. edition], including the [http://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/ghi-info.php Good Housekeeping Institute]
* [http://www.goodhouse.ru/ Russian edition]
From the [[Library of Congress]]:
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cool:@field(NUMBER+@band(gh1))::bibLink=r?ammem/coolbib%3A@field(TITLE+@od1(Good+housekeeping+%3A+)) February 1926 issue] (262 pages)
* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may02.html Today in History: May 2], featuring ''Good Housekeeping''
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