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爱德华·博克:爱德华·博克自传·补录 256
爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导
What every magazine publisher knows as the most troublous years in the establishment of a periodical, the first half-dozen years of its existence, had already been weathered by the editor and publisher. The wife as editor and the husband as publisher had combined to lay a solid basis upon which Bok had only to build: his task was simply to rear a structure upon the foundation already laid. It is to the vision and to the genius of the first editor of The Ladies' Home Journal that the unprecedented success of the magazine is primarily due. It was the purpose and the policy of making a magazine of authoritative service for the womanhood of America, a service which would visualize for womanhood its highest domestic estate, that had won success for the periodical from its inception. It is difficult to believe, in the multiplicity of similar magazines to-day, that such a purpose was new; that The Ladies' Home Journal was a path-finder; but the convincing proof is found in the fact that all the later magazines of this class have followed in the wake of the periodical conceived by Mrs. Curtis, and have ever since been its imitators.
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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3538
定位:Additional excerpt 256 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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杂志创刊头五六年最艰难,这个阶段柯蒂斯夫妇已经熬过:妻子主编、丈夫出版,两人合力铺好坚实的地基,博克只需在上面盖楼。杂志空前的成功,主要归功于第一任主编的远见和天才。她定下的宗旨是:为美国女性办一本提供权威服务的杂志,把女性最高的家庭境界可视化。这个宗旨从创刊起就带来成功。今天同类杂志多如牛毛,很难相信当年这个宗旨是新的、《妇女家庭杂志》是开路者;但后来所有同类杂志都追随柯蒂斯夫人构想、一直模仿它,就是明证。
上下文
博克在自传中把《妇女家庭杂志》的成功归功于首任主编柯蒂斯夫人奠定的宗旨。
今日一问
你所在领域里,你是在模仿别人,还是像柯蒂斯夫人那样定下别人后来追随的宗旨?
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