Harper’s Bazar, A Monthly Magazine for and 50 similar items

Description: color illustrations on the front and back covers. The front cover shows a young girl or woman in a stylish outfit from Miss F. Y. Cory's "The Tragedies of Childhood" series. The back cover shows an advertisement for Baker's Cocoa and Chocolate. 7 1/2" x 10." 136 pages, complete. Many black and white illustrations and advertisements throughout magazine, complete. Pages are very clean and intact. Covers are very clean and intact except for chipping along the spine measuring about 1 1/4" inward from the head and tail. Harper's Bazaar is a monthly women's fashion magazine that was first published in 1867 under the name, Harper's Bazar, as a weekly magazine. At the time of this issue, January 1902, Harper's Bazar was published monthly. In addition to fashion, the magazine also covers a variety of topics such as parenting, fictional short stories, cooking, general news, and interior design. The following are some of the articles and features in this issue: "The Woman's Movement of Our Day: First Paper" by Olive Schreiner [about changes in gender roles at the turn of the century, women's rights, and "female parasitism"], "Mr. James's Masterpiece" by William Dean Howells, "Clarice" by Harriet Prescott Spofford," "Winter Mornings" and "Alone in the Kitchen" by Katharine Pyle [two poems], "The Red House" by E. Nesbit, "An American Girl at Girton College" by Beatrice Williams [about American students in Europe], "My Experience as London's Hostess" by Kathleen Haydn-Green, Lady Mayoress of London, "Mid-Winter Fashions" by A. T. Ashmore, "Dinner and Evening Gowns," "Fashions for Children," "Holiday Notes from Paris" by Katharine De Forest, "Mid-Winter Luncheons" by Maria Blay, "Home Made Dolls for the Children" by M. E. Acker, " "Hints for Homemakers," "Among the Club Women" by Margaret Hamilton Welch, "The Bazar's New Pattern Sheet," "New Uses for Embroidery Stitches" by Lillian Barton-Wilson, "Editorial Comment: The Little Children of the Poor; Eight Suggestions to the Sleepless; On Christmas Giving," "Woman and Law," "Good Form Entertainment," "Answers to Mothers" by Marianna Wheeler, "Household Decoration," and "The Land o' Books."