"workers. It developed as Grand Falls-Windsor. Lord Rothermere married Lilian Share, daughter of George Wade Share, on 4 July 1893. They had three sons, the two elder of whom were killed in the First World War: Viscountess Rothermere, as she had become, died on 16 March 1937. Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, (26 April 1868 – 26 November 1940) was a leading British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the ""Daily Mail"" and ""Daily Mirror""."
"not only the entire middle class, but many well-paid members of the working-class. Harmsworth combined all the new technical innovations, with sensationalism, and a fixed goal of maximizing profits. Working with journalist Kennedy Jones, Harmsworth set up the ""Evening News"" in 1894, and in 1896 launched the morning paper, the ""Daily Mail"". The new formula was to maximize the readership using sensationalism, features, illustrations, and advertisements pitched to women for department stores offering the latest fashions. Harmsworth scored an immediate triumph. The first year daily sales averaged 200,000, and in three years it sold a half-million copies a day. The"
"Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere Vere Harold Esmond Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere (27 April 1925 – 1 September 1998), known as Vere Harmsworth until 1978, was a British newspaper magnate. He controlled large media interests in the United Kingdom and United States. Rothermere became the Chairman of Associated Newspapers in 1970, taking over from his father, Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere who had Alzheimer's disease. He was responsible for the relaunch of the ""Daily Mail"" as a tabloid, after which its circulation increased greatly under editor Sir David English. He may also be considered the founder of ""The Mail"
"the name: he said, ""I intend it to be really a mirror of feminine life as well on its grave as on its lighter sides ... to be entertaining without being frivolous, and serious without being dull"". It cost one penny (equivalent to p in ). It was not an immediate success and in 1904 Harmsworth decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper with a broader focus. Harmsworth appointed Hamilton Fyfe as editor and all of the paper's female journalists were fired. The masthead was changed to ""The Daily Illustrated Mirror"", which ran from 26 January to 27 April"
"two different women. The first, Alfred Benjamin Smith, was born when Harmsworth was seventeen years old; the mother was a sixteen-year-old maidservant in his parents' home. Smith died during 1930, allegedly in a mental home. By 1900, Harmsworth had acquired a new mistress, an Irishwoman named Kathleen Wrohan, about whom little is known but her name; she bore him two further sons and a daughter, and died during 1923. By 1914, Northcliffe controlled 40 per cent of the morning newspaper circulation in Britain, 45 per cent of the evening and 15 per cent of the Sunday circulation. Northcliffe's ownership of"
"the Licensed Victuallers' Association. Though his attempts to improve the paper soon brought him into conflict with the paper's owners, the disputes attracted the attention of the press tycoon Alfred Harmsworth, who offered Fyfe the opportunity to transform the struggling ""Daily Mirror"" the next year. Fyfe accepted Harmsworth's offer, and converted the paper from a publication catering for women readers into a popular newspaper by the use of photojournalism. In 1907, Fyfe ended his editorship of the ""Daily Mirror"" to become a reporter for another Harmsworth publication, the ""Daily Mail"". He gained considerable renown during this period, initially by covering"
"to bi-weekly, to monthly. In 1927, it was renamed The Woman's Journal. It ceased publication in June 1931. Woman's Journal Woman's Journal was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870-1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. In 1917 it was purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt's Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission and merged with ""The Woman Voter"" and ""National Suffrage News"" to become known as The Woman Citizen. It served as the official organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association until 1920, when the organization"
"Woman's Journal Woman's Journal was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870-1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. In 1917 it was purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt's Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission and merged with ""The Woman Voter"" and ""National Suffrage News"" to become known as The Woman Citizen. It served as the official organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association until 1920, when the organization was reformed as the League of Women Voters, and the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was"
"as editors, with assistance from Livermore. Julia Ward Howe edited from 1872-1879. Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Stone and Blackwell, began editing in 1883 and took over as sole editor after her father's death in 1909, continuing until 1917. Contributors included Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Mary Johnston, Stephen S. Wise, Zona Gale, Florence Kelley, Witter Bynner, Ben B. Lindsey, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Clisby and Caroline Bartlett Crane. William Lloyd Garrison was a frequent contributor. Around 1887, headquarters were located in Boston on Park Street. ""Woman's Journal"" refused to carry advertisements for tobacco, liquor, or drugs. In 1910, ""Woman's Journal"" absorbed"
"1900 ""Harmsworth's Monthly Pictorial Magazine"" was renamed the ""London Magazine"" by Cecil Harmsworth, proprietor of the ""Daily Mail"" at the time. The publication continued until 1930 as part of Amalgamated Press when it was renamed the ""New London Magazine"". The Australian scholar Sue Thomas referred to it as ""an important informer... of popular literary tastes in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods"". Despite its acclaim, the magazine closed in 1933. In 1954, a new periodical was given the name of the ""London Magazine"" under the editorship of John Lehmann, largely continuing the tradition of the acclaimed 1940s periodical ""New Writing""."
"Henry Somerset in 1893. It was bought out by Lady Henry and renamed ""The Woman's Signal"". Florence Fenwick-Miller bought the paper in 1895 and was the editor and sole proprietor until its demise in 1899. The Woman's Signal The Woman's Signal was a weekly British feminist magazine published by Marshall & Son, London, from 4 January 1894 to 23 March 1899. It was edited by Lady Henry Somerset, Annie Holdsworth and Florence Fenwick-Miller. Although primarily a temperance paper, it dealt with several feminist issues including fair wages. It began life as ""The Women's Penny Paper"" (27 October 1888 – 27"
"passed granting women the right to vote. Publication of ""Woman Citizen"" slowed from weekly, to bi-weekly, to monthly. In 1927, it was renamed The Woman's Journal. It ceased publication in June 1931. ""Woman's Journal"" was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. The new paper incorporated Mary A. Livermore's ""The Agitator"", as well as a lesser known periodical called the ""Woman's Advocate"". The first issue was published on January 8, on the two-year anniversary of the first issue of Susan B. Anthony's ""The Revolution"". Stone and Blackwell served"
"The Woman's Signal The Woman's Signal was a weekly British feminist magazine published by Marshall & Son, London, from 4 January 1894 to 23 March 1899. It was edited by Lady Henry Somerset, Annie Holdsworth and Florence Fenwick-Miller. Although primarily a temperance paper, it dealt with several feminist issues including fair wages. It began life as ""The Women's Penny Paper"" (27 October 1888 – 27 December 1890), edited by Helena B Temple (Henrietta Müller), later becoming ""The Woman’s Herald"" (3 January 1891 – 28 December 1893). In 1892, Mrs Frank Morrison became editor, followed by Christina Bremner, then by Lady"
"the organ of the American, New England, and Massachusetts woman suffrage associations. Henry Blackwell donated the first $1,000 of the $10,000 raised to start the paper, was one of three trustees under whom the joint stock company was incorporated, and was always the paper's largest shareholder.[44] In 1872, both he and Stone became editors and thereafter edited the ""Woman's Journal"" together, joined by their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, in 1881. After Stone's death in 1893, Blackwell continued editing until his death in 1909. He never took a salary for his work on the ""Woman's Journal"", which became the longest-running suffrage"
"1912 it had sold 3,000 copies and was reaching up to 10,000 readers.The motto of the newspaper was, ‘For Men and Women Equally The Rights of Citizenship; For Men and Women Equally The Duties of Citizenship’. Francis Sheehy Skeffington and James Cousins, the husbands of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins, were the first editors of the publication. Hanna, in October 1919 said that the newspaper was founded ""to further the cause of Woman Suffrage and Feminism in Ireland... In addition it had stood for the rights of Labour, especially for the rights of women workers... we stood for the"
"publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis. After a year it became an independent publication, with Knapp as editor for the first six years. Its original name was ""The Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper"", but Knapp dropped the last three words in 1886. It rapidly became the leading American magazine of its type, reaching a subscribed circulation of more than one million copies by 1903, the first American magazine to do so. Edward W. Bok took over the editorship in late 1889, serving until 1919. Among features he introduced was the popular ""Ruth Ashmore advice column"" written by Isabel Mallon. At"
"Kim Bennett, who took over from John Butterworth in 2009. The newspaper is published by the independently owned Midland News Association. Founded by Thomas Wood, a drapery salesman-turned-printer who had been a partner in the ""Birmingham Chronicle"" newspaper, the ""Shrewsbury Chronicle"" was first published on Monday 23 November 1772. It was then titled ""The Shrewsbury Chronicle, or Wood's British Commercial Pamphlet"" and eight pages long. Following Wood's death in 1801, his widow Mary (""nee"" Horlick) carried on the paper until her own death in 1808, making her ""one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of women newspaper proprietors"". In"
"(and from her first husband) as foreign correspondent for the ""Boston Evening Transcript"", supplying that paper with approximately 120 ""letters"" between 1892 and 1897 before devoting herself full-time to fiction, although she remained an occasional freelance journalist for the rest of her life. Two years after arriving in England she married well-known magazine editor, Charles Norris Williamson (1857-1920), whom she persuaded to appear as co-author for many of her books (later acknowledging her sole authorship). Her success as an author, in its early stages, was owing to Alfred Harmsworth who, recognizing her talent, promoted her stories--especially sensational serial stories--in the"
"and Mail"", and in 1915 the ""Sunday Pictorial"". By 1921 he was owner of the ""Daily Mirror"", ""Sunday Pictorial"", ""Glasgow Daily Record"", ""Evening News"", and ""Sunday Mail"", and shared ownership of the company Associated Newspapers with his brother Alfred, who had been made Viscount Northcliffe in 1918. His greatest success came with the ""Daily Mirror"", which had a circulation of three million by 1922. When his elder brother died in 1922 without an heir, Harmsworth acquired his controlling interest in Associated Newspapers for £1.6 million, and the next year bought the Hulton newspaper chain, which gave him control of three"
"Votes for Women (newspaper) Votes for Women was a newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Until 1912, it was the official newspaper of the Women's Social and Political Union, the leading suffragette organisation. Subsequently, it continued with a smaller circulation, at first independently, and then as the publication of the United Suffragists. The newspaper was founded in October 1907 by Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence. The couple became joint editors of the newspaper, which was published by the St Clement's Press. It was adopted as the official newspaper of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU),"
"origins back to launch of the mid market national newspaper the ""Daily Mail"" by Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, and his elder brother, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, in 1896. It was incorporated in 1922 and its shares were first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1932. Harmsworth, who had been elevated to the peerage as Lord Rothermere, was editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists and he wrote an article, ""Hurrah for the Blackshirts"", in January 1934. Referring to Adolf Hitler's proposed invasion of Czechoslovakia, Rothermere, again writing in the ""Daily Mail"", said in"
"stories and analysis to reviews and commentary. The magazine was purchased by The Washington Post Company in 1961. Osborn Elliott was named editor of ""Newsweek"" in 1961 and became the editor in chief in 1969. In 1970, Eleanor Holmes Norton represented sixty female employees of ""Newsweek"" who had filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that ""Newsweek"" had a policy of only allowing men to be reporters. The women won, and ""Newsweek"" agreed to allow women to be reporters. The day the claim was filed, ""Newsweek""'s cover article was ""Women in Revolt"", covering the feminist movement; the article"
"adept in business matters. Harmsworth had an intuitive sense for what the reading public wanted to buy, and began a series of cheap but successful periodicals, such as ""Comic Cuts"" (tagline: ""Amusing without being Vulgar"") and the journal ""Forget-Me-Not"" for women. From these periodicals, he developed the largest periodical publishing company in the world, Amalgamated Press. His half-penny periodicals published in the 1890s played a role in the decline of the Victorian penny dreadfuls. Harmsworth was an early developer of popular journalism. He bought several failing newspapers and made them into an enormously profitable news group, primarily by appealing to"
"History of women's magazines This article addresses the history of women's magazines. In 1693 the first issue of the first women's magazine in Britain, ""The Ladies' Mercury"", was published. In 1857 the first women's magazine in Gujarati, ""Streebodh"", was established by Parsi social activists. In 1892 the first women's magazine in Egypt, and indeed in all the Arab countries, ""Al Fatat"", was established by Hind Nawfal. In the period before the American Civil War, ""Godey's Lady's Book"" was a United States women's magazine that was the most widely circulated magazine. Its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000"
"relatively healthy 276,000 copies, but was soon down to 25,000. Harmsworth lost confidence in his plan for the paper. According to him, ""women can't write and don't want to read"". He wrote to Hamilton Fyfe to offer him the job of editor. Fyfe replied, confirming that he would be happy to take up the post, as soon as he could resign as editor of the ""Morning Advertiser"". Howarth, apparently only on loan from the ""Mail"", returned to her former job at the ""Mail"" after a week's publication. Fyfe took up the editorial post early in 1904, sacking almost all the"
"1938 that ""Czechs were of no concern to Englishmen"". Harold Harmsworth's son, Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, took operational control of the organization in 1932 and complete control in 1940, when his father died. Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere became the Chairman of Associated Newspapers in 1970. After the death of his father in 1978, he also became chairman of parent Daily Mail and General Trust plc. After almost 100 years in Fleet Street, the company left its original premises of New Carmelite House in Fleet Street in 1988 to move to Northcliffe House in Kensington. On 14 December,"
"""The Daily Mirror"" during 1903, and rescued the financially desperate ""Observer"" and ""The Times"" during 1905 and 1908, respectively. During 1908, he also acquired ""The Sunday Times"". The Amalgamated Press subsidiary the ""Educational Book Company"" published the ""Harmsworth Self-Educator"", ""The Children's Encyclopædia"", and ""Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia"". He brought his younger brothers into his media empire, and they all flourished: Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet. Harmsworth was created a Baronet, of Elmwood, in the parish of St Peters in the County of Kent during 1904."
"the front page was mainly photographs. Circulation grew to 466,000 making it the second-largest morning newspaper. Alfred Harmsworth sold the newspaper to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1917, the price was increased to one penny. Circulation continued to grow: in 1919, some issues sold more than a million copies a day, making it the largest daily picture paper. In 1924 the newspaper sponsored the 1924 Women's Olympiad held at Stamford Bridge in London. Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the ""Mirror""s editorial stance towards them in the"
"The Goss Girls The Goss Girls is the collective title for British newspaper the ""Daily Star""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Goss column written by the paper's showbiz editor Jessica Brown and reporter Sonja Stephen. The daily column used to be called ""The Bitches"" but is now simply known as ""Goss"". ""Daily Express"" owner Richard Desmond launched the column in August 2001. Their tag-line is ""Britain's Most Rock'n'Roll Journalists"". And they have lived up to this on numerous occasions, by becoming the story during their party reporting. Their tabloid counterparts are The 3AM Girls for the ""Daily Mirror"" and Gordon Smart who edits ""The Sun""'s"
"Beer appointed his wife, Rachel Sassoon Beer, as editor. She was already editor of ""Observer"" – the first woman to run a national newspaper – and continued to edit both titles until 1901. There was a further change of ownership in 1903, and then in 1915 the paper was bought by William Berry and his brother, Gomer Berry, later ennobled as Lord Camrose and Viscount Kemsley respectively. Under their ownership, ""The Sunday Times"" continued its reputation for innovation: on 23 November 1930, it became the first Sunday newspaper to publish a 40-page issue and on 21 January 1940, news replaced"
"assets of Northern & Shell, including the ""Daily Express"", ""Sunday Express,"" ""Daily Star and OK!"". Following completion, Trinity Mirror announced a plan to rebrand as Reach, subject to investor approval which was achieved at its Annual General Meeting in May 2018. The ""Daily Mirror"" was launched by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe ""for gentlewomen"" in 1903. The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 2 December 1953. In 1958 the International Publishing Company (IPC) acquired Mirror Group Newspapers, but IPC was in turn taken over by publishing giant Reed International in 1970. In 1984 Pergamon Holdings, a"
"which incorporate certain stories from the ""Mirror"" that are of Scottish significance. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was transformed into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a larger audience. The ""Mirror"" has had a number of owners. It was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, who sold it to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1963 a restructuring of the media interests of the Harmsworth family led to the ""Mirror"" becoming a part of International Publishing Corporation. During the mid 1960s, daily sales exceeded 5 million copies, a feat never repeated by"
"her junior at the newspaper, Bessie Maxwell, with Thomson sending them off on a year-long trip around the world to report on the lives of women globally. At the time, Thomson said “These ladies are not only intrepid, but they are shrewd and observant, are possessed of undoubted literary ability, and are in complete sympathy with the stupendous task in which they are about to engage.” They began their journey on February 16, 1894, and letters of introduction preceded them at every stop on the trip, with two column reports and sketches filed every week for the Dundee Courier and"