Ladies' Home Journal

Ladies' Home Journal

January 1951 cover
Editor-in-chief	Sally Lee
Categories	Women's interest, lifestyle
Frequency	11 issues/year (1883–1910; 1911–2014) 24 issues a year (c. 1910–1911) Quarterly (2014–2016)
Publisher	Meredith Corporation
Total circulation (2011)	3,267,239[1]
Founded	1883 (1883)
Final issue	2016
Country	US
Based in	Des Moines, Iowa
Language	English
ISSN	0023-7124

Ladies' Home Journal was an American magazine last published by the Meredith Corporation. It was first published on February 16, 1883,^[2] and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States. In 1891, it was published in Philadelphia by the Curtis Publishing Company. In 1903, it was the first American magazine to reach one million subscribers.^[3]

In the late 20th century, changing tastes and competition from television caused it to lose circulation. Sales of the magazine declined as the publishing company struggled. On April 24, 2014, Meredith announced it would stop publishing the magazine as a monthly with the July issue, stating it was "transitioning Ladies' Home Journal to a special interest publication".^[4] It was then available quarterly on newsstands only, though its website remained in operation.^[5] The last issue was published in 2016.

Ladies' Home Journal was one of the Seven Sisters. The name was derived from the Greek myth of the "seven sisters", also known as the Pleiades.