Color-printed blue paper wrappers with an illustration of a Native girl in a dress patterned to look like a corncob
[n.d., ca 1920?] · New York:
by [ Advertising]. Hewitt, Emma Churchman.
New York: Corn Products Refining Co., [n.d., ca 1920?] An uncommon cookbook advertising Mazola corn oil, Karo syrup, and other corn products. Color-printed blue paper wrappers with an illustration of a Native girl in a dress patterned to look like a corncob. 4 x 6 . With eight color plates. Light dampstaining to fore-edge. Some marginal toning. With seven contemporary newspaper clippings (mostly of recipes) from a Chicago-area newspaper. A very good copy. Emma Churchman Hewitt (1850 – 1921) was an author and journalist. Most of the information about her life survives in Frances Willard and Mary A. Livermore's A Woman of the Century (1893), which includes a brief biography of Hewitt. In 1884, Hewitt became a journalist for the Daily Evening Reporter of Burlington, New Jersey, where she worked until the publication shut down. In 1885, she was solicited by the publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal to write a series of articles under the title "Scribbler's Letters to Gustavus Adolphus." The next year, she began working as the associate editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, which also published many of her articles about etiquette and the home. Her book Ease in Conversation (1887) was initially published in the Ladies' Home Journal as a series of articles titled "Mildred's Conversation Class." She was also a contributor to Lippincott's Magazine and about a dozen other publications. Hewitt later served as an editor of the Home Magazine in Washington, D.C., and contributed to the Philadelphia magazine Leisure Hours.
(Inventory #: 17690)