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92-481: In 2015, MPWH launched its apps for iOS and Android devices, which provide full functionality as its pc site and mobile site. Currently Michelle Lee is MPWH APP co-founder. MPWH app was announced by Cosmopolitan UK as a dating app for people with Herpes in September, 2015. MPWH started to charge its members from March, 2016 PT (Pacific time) for providing a serious and meaningful dating environment. In 2018, MPWH

184-481: A British perspective can be entered. In May 2015, Cosmopolitan UK announced they were launching their first ever fragrance. This is considered a first in the magazine industry. Named 'Cosmopolitan, The Fragrance', the perfume takes on the notion of their much-loved phrase 'Fun, Fearless Female' and was set to launch in September. Cosmopolitan played a role in passing the Seventeenth Amendment to

276-582: A barely legible twelve points. After Hearst died in 1951, the Hearst's International disappeared from the magazine cover altogether in April 1952. With a circulation of 1,700,000 in the 1930s, Cosmopolitan had an advertising income of $ 5,000,000. Emphasizing fiction in the 1940s, it was subtitled The Four-Book Magazine since the first section had one novelette, six or eight short stories, two serials, six to eight articles and eight or nine special features, while

368-474: A bottle . In conjunction with the campaign, Cosmopolitan 's editor-in-chief, Kate White, approached Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney , known for her support of women's health issues, with concerns that women were not fully aware of the dangers of indoor tanning and the effectiveness of the current warning labels. After careful review, the Congresswoman agreed that it was necessary to recommend that

460-520: A feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV long after the best available medical science indicated otherwise. The piece claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and went on to state that "most heterosexuals are not at risk" and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position . This article angered many educated people, including AIDS and gay rights activists. The protests organised in response to

552-553: A film company based in New York City from 1918 to 1923, then Hollywood until 1938. The vision for this film company was to make films from stories published in the magazine. Cosmopolitan magazine was officially titled as Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan from 1925 until 1952, but was simply referred to as Cosmopolitan . In 1911, Hearst had bought a middling monthly magazine called World To-Day and renamed it Hearst's Magazine in April 1912. In June 1914 it

644-580: A former U.S. Open Tennis Championship runner-up who became governor of Rhode Island. At the time, Wharton described the main house as "incurably ugly.” Wharton agreed to pay $ 80,000 for the property, and she spent thousands more to alter the home's facade, decorate the interior, and landscape the grounds. In 1902, Wharton designed The Mount , her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts , which survives, today, as an example of her design principles. She wrote several of her novels there, including The House of Mirth (1905),

736-510: A free correspondence school: "No charge of any kind will be made to the student. All expenses for the present will be borne by the Cosmopolitan . No conditions, except a pledge of a given number of hours of study." When 20,000 immediately signed up, Walker could not fund the school and students were then asked to contribute 20 dollars a year. Also in 1897, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds

828-562: A granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst (founder of Cosmopolitan 's parent company) and sister of Patty Hearst , has lent her support to a campaign which seeks to classify Cosmopolitan as harmful under the guidelines of "Material Harmful to Minors" laws. Hearst, the founder of an evangelical Colorado church called Praise Him Ministries, states that "the magazine promotes a lifestyle that can be dangerous to women's emotional and physical well being. It should never be sold to anyone under 18". According to former model Nicole Weider , who

920-461: A memoir. In 1873, Wharton wrote a short story and gave it to her mother to read. Stinging from her mother's critique, Wharton decided to write only poetry . While she constantly sought her mother's approval and love, she rarely received either, and their relationship was a troubled one. Before she was 15, Wharton wrote Fast and Loose (1877). In her youth, she wrote about society. Her central themes came from her experiences with her parents. She

1012-583: A near-nude centerfold of actor Burt Reynolds in April 1972, causing great controversy and attracting much attention. The Latin American edition of Cosmopolitan was launched in March 1973. In April 1978, a single edition of Cosmopolitan Man was published as a trial, targeted to appeal to men. Its cover featured Jack Nicholson and Aurore Clément . It was published twice in 1989 as a supplement to Cosmopolitan . In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran

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1104-736: A poem under a pseudonym in the New York World, in 1879. In 1880, she had five poems published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly , an important literary magazine. Despite these early successes, she was not encouraged by her family or her social circle, and though she continued to write, she did not publish anything more until her poem "The Last Giustiniani" was published in Scribner's Magazine in October 1889. Between 1880 and 1890, Wharton put her writing aside to participate in

1196-613: A spinoff magazine targeting a teenage female audience, was created for international readership. It shut down in December 2008. There are 64 worldwide editions of Cosmopolitan , and the magazine is published in 35 languages, with distribution in more than 100 countries making Cosmopolitan the largest-selling young women's magazine in the world. Some international editions are published in partnerships, such as licenses or joint ventures, with established publishing houses in each local market. During 2015, Cosmopolitan found popularity in

1288-536: A story. Wharton began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, and she attempted to write her first novel at the age of 11. Her mother's criticism quashed her ambition, however, and she turned to poetry. She was 15 years old when her first published work appeared, a translation of a German poem "Was die Steine Erzählen" ("What the Stones Tell") by Heinrich Karl Brugsch , for which she was paid $ 50. Her family did not want her name to appear in print, since writing

1380-598: A then-newfound medium, the "discover" section on Snapchat. At the time, Cosmopolitan's "discover" had over 3 million readers a day. In October 2018, Bauer Media Group announced that after 45 years, publication of the Australian edition of Cosmopolitan would stop due to the commercial viability of the magazine no longer being sustainable. In March 2022 the Russian edition, Cosmopolitan Russia , changed its title to Voice after Hearst revoked its affiliation following

1472-593: A video on The Making of the World's Sexiest Calendar in 1994 followed by a 14-month Cosmopolitan Men Calendar. Photographer Richard Reinsdorf shot the entire Calendar and helped direct the video. Cosmopolitan releases a Male Centerfold issue every few years that features hot male celebrities from the United States. Here is a partial list of the men that have appeared in Cosmopolitan's Centerfold Editions over

1564-521: Is also part of this campaign, the magazine's marketing is subtly targeting children. Billboards have been hung in states such as Utah urging the state to ban sales of the magazine. In 2018, Walmart announced that Cosmopolitan would be removed from checkout lines after the anti-pornography organization National Center on Sexual Exploitation , formerly known as Morality in Media, labeled the magazine as "sexually explicit material". Cosmopolitan Australia

1656-515: Is an American quarterly fashion and entertainment magazine for women, first published based in New York City in March 1886 as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and, since 1965, has become a women's magazine . Cosmopolitan is one of the best-selling magazines. Formerly titled The Cosmopolitan and often referred to as Cosmo , Cosmopolitan has adapted its style and content. Its current incarnation

1748-485: Is pro-life because that's not in our readers' best interest." According to Joanna Coles, the magazine's editor-in-chief , the endorsements of Cosmopolitan will focus on "candidates in swing states or candidates who are strongly in favor of issues like contraception coverage or gun control." In the 2014 U.S. elections , Cosmopolitan officially endorsed twelve Democratic candidates. However, only two of them won their respective political campaigns . Victoria Hearst,

1840-780: Is published by New York City–based Hearst Corporation . The magazine's office in the Hearst Tower , 300 West 57th Street near Columbus Circle in Manhattan in New York City. Cosmopolitan has 21 international editions in Bulgaria, China, Czechia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Middle East, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine and

1932-718: Is the generously illustrated Italian Villas and Their Gardens of 1904, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish . Over the course of her life, she crossed the Atlantic 60 times. In Europe, her primary destinations were Italy, France, and England. She also went to Morocco. She wrote many books about her travels, including Italian Backgrounds and A Motor-Flight through France . Her husband, Edward Wharton, shared her love of travel and for many years, they spent at least four months of each year abroad, mainly in Italy. Their friend, Egerton Winthrop, accompanied them, on many journeys there. In 1888,

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2024-457: Is what it does not tell: her criticism of Lucretia Jones [her mother], her difficulties with Teddy, and her affair with Morton Fullerton, which did not come to light until her papers, deposited in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library , were opened in 1968. On June 1, 1937, Wharton was at her French country home (shared with architect and interior decorator Ogden Codman ), where she

2116-670: The Germans invaded Belgium in the fall of 1914 and Paris was flooded with Belgian refugees, she helped to set up the American Hostels for Refugees, which managed to get them shelter, meals, and clothes, and eventually created an employment agency to help them find work. She collected more than $ 100,000 on their behalf. In early 1915, she organized the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee, which gave shelter to nearly 900 Belgian refugees who had fled, when their homes were bombed by

2208-625: The US Constitution , which allowed for the popular election of US Senators (previously they were elected by state legislatures). In 1906, William Randolph Hearst hired David Graham Phillips to write a series of articles entitled " The Treason of the Senate ". These articles, which were largely sensationalized, helped galvanize public support for this cause. In September 2014, Cosmopolitan began endorsing political candidates. The endorsements are based on "established criteria" agreed upon by

2300-473: The birth control pill , which had gone on the market exactly five years earlier. This was not Brown's first publication dealing with sexually liberated women. Her 1962 advice book, Sex and the Single Girl , had been a bestseller. Fan mail begging for Brown's advice on many subjects concerning women's behavior, sexual encounters, health, and beauty flooded her after the book was released. Brown sent

2392-404: The invasion of Ukraine . On the cover of its October 2018 issue, Cosmopolitan featured plus-sized model Tess Holliday . Some people, such as TV presenter Piers Morgan , criticized this choice, arguing that it amounted to promoting obesity. Editor of Cosmopolitan Farrah Storr called the cover choice a bold stance in favor of body positivity . In December 2020, actress Emma Roberts became

2484-751: The American Protestant section of the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, "with all the honors owed a war hero and a chevalier of the Legion of Honor ... a group of some one hundred friends sang a verse of the hymn 'O Paradise'..." Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and

2576-684: The Bachelor of the Year, who is announced at an annual party and media event in New York. The 50 bachelors generally appear on programs such as The Today Show . Past winners include: In the May 2006 issue of Cosmopolitan , the magazine launched the Practice Safe Sun campaign, an initiative aimed at fighting skin cancer by asking readers to stop all forms of tanning other than tanning from

2668-1046: The FDA take a closer look. She and Representative Ginny Brown-Waite introduced the Tanning Accountability and Notification Act (TAN Act – H.R. 4767) on February 16, 2006. President Bush signed the act in September 2007, and the new federal law requires the FDA to scrutinize the warning labels on tanning beds and issue a report by September 2008. Cosmopolitan UK launched the Cosmo Blog Awards in 2010. The awards attracted more than 15,000 entries and winning and highly commended blogs were voted for in several categories including beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and celebrity. The 2011 awards launched in August 2011 and nominations are open until August 31, 2011. All UK-based bloggers and blogs written by British bloggers abroad with

2760-469: The French administration, Lyautey, and particularly, his wife. During the post-war years, she divided her time between Hyères and Provence , where she finished The Age of Innocence , in 1920. She returned to the United States only once, after the war, to receive an honorary doctorate from Yale University in 1923. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton

2852-829: The Germans. Aided by her influential connections in the French government, she and her long-time friend, Walter Berry (then president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris), were among the few foreigners in France allowed to travel to the front lines, during World War I. She and Berry made five journeys, between February and August 1915, which Wharton described in a series of articles that were first published in Scribner's Magazine and later as Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort , which became an American bestseller. Travelling by car, Wharton and Berry drove through

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2944-507: The Jones family in Europe during this time. After returning to the United States with her mother, Wharton continued her courtship with Stevens, announcing their engagement in August 1882. The month the two were to marry, the engagement ended. Wharton's mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, moved back to Paris in 1883, and she lived there until her death in 1901. On April 29, 1885, at

3036-525: The Throat of the Republic" (December 1907 – March 1908) and "What Are You Going to Do About It?" (July 1910 – January 1911). Other contributors during this period included O. Henry , A. J. Cronin , Alfred Henry Lewis , Bruno Lessing , Sinclair Lewis , O. O. McIntyre , David Graham Phillips , George Bernard Shaw , Upton Sinclair , and Ida Tarbell . Jack London 's novella, " The Red One ",

3128-549: The United Kingdom. Cosmopolitan originally began as a family and women's magazine, first published based in New York City in March 1886 by Schlicht & Field of New York as The Cosmopolitan . Paul Schlicht told his first-issue readers inside of the front cover that his publication was a "first-class family magazine". Adding on, "There will be a department devoted exclusively to the concerns of women, with articles on fashions, on household decoration, on cooking, and

3220-582: The United States in 1872, they spent their winters in New York City and their summers in Newport, Rhode Island . While in Europe, she was educated by tutors and governesses . She rejected the standards of fashion and etiquette that were expected of young girls at the time, which were intended to allow women to marry well and to be put on display at balls and parties. She considered these fashions superficial and oppressive. Edith wanted more education than she received, so, she read from her father's library and from

3312-671: The Whartons and their friend, James Van Alen, took a cruise through the Aegean islands . Wharton was 26. The trip cost the Whartons $ 10,000 and lasted four months. She kept a travel journal, during this trip, that was thought to be lost but was later published as The Cruise of the Vanadis , now considered her earliest known travel writing. In 1897, Edith Wharton purchased Land's End in Newport, Rhode Island, from Robert Livingston Beeckman ,

3404-448: The Year award was awarded to Kayla Itsines (2015), Nicole Scherzinger (2012), Mila Kunis (2011), Anna Faris (2010), Ali Larter (2009), Katherine Heigl (2008), Eva Mendes (2007), Beyoncé (2006), Ashlee Simpson (2005), Alicia Silverstone (2004), Sandra Bullock (2003), Britney Spears (2002), Debra Messing (2001), Jennifer Love Hewitt (2000), Shania Twain (1999), and Ashley Judd (1998). Cosmopolitan Men released

3496-604: The age of 23, Wharton married Edward Robbins (Teddy) Wharton, who was 12 years her senior, at the Trinity Chapel Complex in Manhattan. From a well-established Boston family, he was a sportsman and a gentleman of the same social class and shared her love of travel. The Whartons set up house at Pencraig Cottage in Newport. In 1893, they bought a house named Land's End, on the other side of Newport, for $ 80,000, and moved into it. Wharton decorated Land's End, with

3588-487: The age of 90. Her vision is still evident in the design of the magazine. The magazine eventually adopted a cover format consisting of a usually young female model (or prominent female celebrity), typically in a low cut dress, bikini, or some other revealing outfit. The magazine set itself apart by frankly discussing sexuality from the point of view that women could and should enjoy sex without guilt. The first issue under Helen Gurley Brown, July 1965, featured an article on

3680-573: The article's publication were turned into a 30-minute documentary titled "Doctors, Liars and Women: AIDS Activists Say NO to Cosmo" by two members of ACTUP, a New York City based collective of HIV/AIDS activists. One of the articles in its October 1989 issue, "The Risky Business of Bisexual Love", promoted the ' bisexual bridge' theory. The 'bisexual bridge' theory suggests that heterosexual women are unknowingly put at risk for contracting HIV through sexual contact with bisexual men who covertly have sex with other men (colloquially described as being "on

3772-438: The business arrangements, lined up contributors, and translated the French entries into English. Theodore Roosevelt wrote a two-page introduction, in which he praised Wharton's effort and urged Americans to support the war. She also kept up her own work, continuing to write novels, short stories, and poems, as well as reporting for The New York Times and keeping up her enormous correspondence. Wharton urged Americans to support

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3864-416: The care and management of children. There was also a department for the younger members of the family." Cosmopolitan 's circulation reached 25,000 that year, but by November 1888, Schlicht & Field were no longer in business. Ownership was acquired by John Brisben Walker in 1889. That same year, he dispatched Elizabeth Bisland on a race around the world against Nellie Bly to draw attention to

3956-497: The displaced. She was a "heroic worker on behalf of her adopted country". On April 18, 1916, Raymond Poincaré , the then-President of France, appointed her Chevalier of the Legion of Honour , the country's highest award, in recognition of her dedication to the war effort. Her relief work included setting up workrooms for unemployed French women, organizing concerts to provide work for musicians, raising tens of thousands of dollars for

4048-480: The down low"). The New York Area Bisexual Network performed a successful letter-writing campaign against Cosmopolitan . Since the 1960s, Cosmopolitan has discussed such topics as health, fitness, and fashion, as well as sex. The magazine has also featured a section called "Ask Him Anything", where a male writer answers readers' questions about men and dating. The magazine, in particular its cover stories, has become increasingly sexually explicit in tone. In 2000,

4140-524: The editors of her letters as "one of the better known failed encounters in the American literary annals.” She spoke fluent French, Italian, and German, and many of her books were published in both French and English. In 1934, Wharton's autobiography , A Backward Glance, was published. In the view of Judith E. Funston, writing on Edith Wharton in American National Biography , What is most notable about A Backward Glance, however,

4232-415: The first of many chronicles of life in old New York. At The Mount, she entertained the cream of American literary society, including her close friend, novelist Henry James , who described the estate as "a delicate French chateau mirrored in a Massachusetts pond". Although she spent many months traveling in Europe nearly every year, with her friend, Egerton Winthrop (a descendant of John Winthrop ), The Mount

4324-557: The first pregnant celebrity to appear on the cover of the magazine. For over a decade, the February issue has featured this award. In 2011, Russell Brand received the magazine's Fun, Fearless Male of the Year Award, joining Kellan Lutz and Paul Wesley (2010), John Mayer (2008), Nick Lachey (2007), Patrick Dempsey (2006), Josh Duhamel (2005), Matthew Perry (2004), and Jon Bon Jovi (2003). The Fun, Fearless Female of

4416-551: The first woman to win the award. The three fiction judges – literary critic Stuart Pratt Sherman , literature professor Robert Morss Lovett , and novelist Hamlin Garland – voted to give the prize to Sinclair Lewis for his satire Main Street , but Columbia University's advisory board, led by conservative university president Nicholas Murray Butler , overturned their decision and awarded the prize to The Age of Innocence . Wharton

4508-473: The former Dutch government of New York and New Jersey. Her father's first cousin was Caroline Schermerhorn Astor . Fort Stevens, in New York, was named for Wharton's maternal great-grandfather, Ebenezer Stevens , a Revolutionary War hero and general. Wharton was born during the Civil War . However, in describing her family life, Wharton does not mention the war, except that their travels to Europe after

4600-581: The grocery chain Kroger , at the time the second largest in the US after Walmart , began covering up Cosmopolitan at checkout stands because of complaints about sexually inappropriate headlines. The UK edition of Cosmopolitan , which began in 1972, was the first Cosmopolitan magazine to be branched out to another country. It was well known for sexual explicitness, with strong sexual language, male nudity, and coverage of such subjects as rape. In 1999, CosmoGIRL! ,

4692-737: The help of designer Ogden Codman . In 1897, the Whartons purchased their New York home, 884 Park Avenue . Between 1886 and 1897, they traveled overseas, in the period from February to June, mostly visiting Italy but also Paris and England. From her marriage onwards, three interests came to dominate Wharton's life: American houses, writing, and Italy. From the late 1880s until 1902, Teddy Wharton suffered from chronic depression. The couple, then, ceased their extensive travel. At that time, his depression became more debilitating, after which they lived almost exclusively at their estate, The Mount , in Lenox, Massachusetts. During those same years, Wharton, herself,

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4784-406: The libraries of her father's friends. Her mother forbade her to read novels until she was married, and Edith obeyed this command. Wharton wrote and told stories from an early age. When her family moved to Europe and she was just four or five, she started what she called "making up." She invented stories for her family and walked with an open book, turning the pages as if reading while improvising

4876-428: The magazine's editors and scouts searched America over the course of a year, seeing thousands of men before deciding on James. Cosmopolitan 's November issue features the hottest bachelors from all 50 states. Pictures and profiles of all the bachelors are posted on www.cosmopolitan.com, where readers view and vote for their favorite, narrowing it down to six finalists. A team of Cosmopolitan editors then selects

4968-399: The magazine's editors. Specifically, Cosmopolitan will only endorse candidates that support equal pay laws , legal abortion , free contraceptives , gun control , and oppose voter identification laws . Amy Odell, editor of Cosmopolitan.com, has stated that under no circumstances will the magazine endorse a political candidate that is anti-abortion : "We're not going to endorse someone who

5060-501: The magazine. Under John Brisben Walker's ownership, E. D. Walker, formerly with Harper's Monthly , took over as the new editor, introducing color illustrations, serials and book reviews. It became a leading market for fiction, featuring such authors as Annie Besant , Ambrose Bierce , Willa Cather , Theodore Dreiser , Rudyard Kipling , Jack London , Edith Wharton , and H. G. Wells . The magazine's press run climbed to 100,000 by 1892. In 1897, Cosmopolitan announced plans for

5152-561: The magazine. Brown remodeled and re-invented it as a magazine for modern single career women, completely transforming the magazine into a racy, contentious, and successful magazine. As the editor for 32 years, Brown spent this time using the magazine as an outlet to erase stigma around unmarried women not only having sex, but also enjoying it. Known as a "devout feminist", Brown was often attacked by critics due to her progressive views on women and sex. She believed that women were allowed to enjoy sex without shame in all cases. She died in 2012 at

5244-468: The message that a woman should have men complement her life, not take it over. Enjoying sex without shame was also a message she incorporated in both publications. In Brown's early years as editor, the magazine received heavy criticism. In 1968 at the feminist Miss America protest , protestors symbolically threw a number of feminine products into a "Freedom Trash Can". These included copies of Cosmopolitan and Playboy magazines. Cosmopolitan also ran

5336-943: The morality of the author, critiques of intellectual pretension, and the "unmasking" of the truth. Wharton's writing also explored themes of "social mores and social reform" as they relate to the "extremes and anxieties of the Gilded Age". A key recurring theme in Wharton's writing is the relationship between the house as a physical space and its relationship to its inhabitant's characteristics and emotions. Maureen Howard argues "Edith Wharton conceived of houses, dwelling places, in extended imagery of shelter and dispossession. Houses – their confinement and their theatrical possibilities ... they are never mere settings." American children's stories containing slang were forbidden in Wharton's childhood home. This included such popular authors as Mark Twain , Bret Harte , and Joel Chandler Harris . She

5428-552: The most lethal acts of revenge ever taken by a writing daughter." In her memoir, A Backward Glance , Wharton describes her mother as indolent, spendthrift, censorious, disapproving, superficial, icy, dry and ironic. Wharton's writings often dealt with themes such as "social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the new elite." Maureen Howard , editor of Edith Wharton: Collected Stories , notes several recurring themes in Wharton's short stories, including confinement and attempts at freedom,

5520-497: The name Cosmopolitan Arianna . From January 1976 the masthead changed to the current Cosmopolitan . In 1996 the magazine, owned by Della Schiava Editore, ended its publication, which resumed with Mondadori in 2000, with the editor Silvia Brena. In July 2010 Cosmopolitan passed to the editorial Hearst Magazines Italia, becoming a monthly magazine. Edith Wharton Edith Newbold Wharton ( / ˈ hw ɔːr t ən / ; née   Jones ; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)

5612-432: The novella Ethan Frome , and several notable ghost stories. Edith Newbold Jones was born on January 24, 1862, to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City . To her friends and family, she was known as "Pussy Jones". She had two elder brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. Frederic married Mary Cadwalader Rawle ; their daughter

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5704-648: The other three sections featured two novels and a digest of current non-fiction books. During World War II, sales peaked at 2,000,000. The magazine began to run less fiction during the 1950s. Circulation dropped to slightly over a million by 1955, a time when magazines were overshadowed during the rise of paperbacks and television. The Golden Age of magazines came to an end as mass market , general interest publications gave way to special interest magazines targeting specialized audiences. Cosmopolitan's circulation continued to decline for another decade until Helen Gurley Brown became chief editor in 1965 and radically changed

5796-529: The rest of her life, spending winters and springs on the French Riviera at Sainte Claire du Vieux Chateau in Hyères . Wharton was a committed supporter of French imperialism , describing herself as a "rabid imperialist,” and the war solidified her political views. After the war, she traveled to Morocco, as the guest of Resident General Hubert Lyautey and wrote the book In Morocco , full of praise for

5888-417: The social rituals of the New York upper classes. She keenly observed the social changes happening around her, which she later used in her writing. Wharton officially came out as a debutante to society in 1879. She was allowed to bare her shoulders and wear her hair up for the first time at a December dance, which was given by a Society matron, Anna Morton. Wharton began a courtship with Henry Leyden Stevens,

5980-457: The son of Paran Stevens, a wealthy hotelier and real estate investor from rural New Hampshire. His sister, Minnie, married Arthur Paget . The Jones family did not approve of Stevens. In the middle of her debutante season, the Jones family returned to Europe in 1881 for her father's health. In spite of this, her father, George Frederic Jones, died of a stroke in Cannes in 1882. Stevens was with

6072-878: The war effort and encouraged America to enter the war. She wrote the popular romantic novel, Summer in 1917, the war novella, The Marne, in 1918, and A Son at the Front, in 1919 (published 1923). When the war ended, she watched the Victory Parade from the Champs Elysees' balcony of a friend's apartment. After four years of intense effort, she decided to leave Paris for the quiet of the countryside. Wharton settled 10 mi (16 km) north of Paris in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt , buying an 18th-century house on seven acres of land that she called Pavillon Colombe. She lived there, in summer and autumn, for

6164-500: The war effort, and opening tuberculosis hospitals. In 1915, Wharton edited a charity benefit volume, The Book of the Homeless , which included essays, art, poetry, and musical scores by many major contemporary European and American artists, including Henry James , Joseph Conrad , William Dean Howells , Anna de Noailles , Jean Cocteau , and Walter Gay , among others. Wharton proposed the book to her publisher, Scribner's, handled

6256-511: The war were due to the depreciation of American currency. From 1866 to 1872, the Jones family visited France , Italy , Germany , and Spain . During her travels, the young Edith became fluent in French , German , and Italian . At the age of nine, she suffered from typhoid fever , which nearly killed her, while the family was at a spa in the Black Forest . After the family returned to

6348-411: The war zone, viewing one devastated French village after another. She visited the trenches and was within earshot of artillery fire. She wrote, "We woke to a noise of guns closer and more incessant, and when we went out into the streets, it seemed as if, overnight, a new army had sprung out of the ground". Throughout the war, she worked in charitable efforts for refugees, the injured, the unemployed, and

6440-513: The years: Burt Reynolds 1972, Jim Brown 1973, John Davidson 1975, Arnold Schwarzenegger 1977, Scott Brown 1982, David Hasselhoff 1990. Male super-model Tracy James was named Cosmopolitan's 25th Anniversary Centerfold in 1995: his centerfold garnered so much attention that Cosmopolitan printed an extra 500,000 copies to meet demand. Cosmopolitan 's Editor-in-Chief Helen Gurley Brown sat with James for interviews on America's Talking and on Oprah with Oprah Winfrey , on how

6532-1074: Was allowed to read Louisa May Alcott but Wharton preferred Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Charles Kingsley 's The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby . Wharton's mother forbade her from reading many novels and Wharton said she "read everything else but novels until the day of my marriage." Instead Wharton read the classics, philosophy, history, and poetry in her father's library including Daniel Defoe , John Milton , Thomas Carlyle , Alphonse de Lamartine , Victor Hugo , Jean Racine , Thomas Moore , Lord Byron , William Wordsworth , John Ruskin , and Washington Irving . Biographer Hermione Lee describes Wharton as having read herself "out of Old New York" and her influences included Herbert Spencer , Charles Darwin , Friedrich Nietzsche , T. H. Huxley , George Romanes , James Frazer , and Thorstein Veblen . These influenced her ethnographic style of novelization . Wharton developed

6624-556: Was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928, and 1930. Wharton was friend and confidante to many prominent intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis , Jean Cocteau , and André Gide were all her guests, at one time or another. Theodore Roosevelt, Bernard Berenson , and Kenneth Clark were valued friends, as well. Particularly notable was her meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald , described by

6716-613: Was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age . In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, The Age of Innocence . She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth ,

6808-452: Was at work on a revised edition of The Decoration of Houses , when she suffered a heart attack and collapsed. She died of a stroke on August 11, 1937, at Le Pavillon Colombe , her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt . She died at 5:30 p.m., but her death was not known in Paris. At her bedside was her friend, Mrs. Royall Tyler . Wharton was buried in

6900-417: Was beset with harsh literary criticism from the naturalist school of writers. In addition to novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories. She was also a garden designer , an interior designer , and a taste-maker of her time. She wrote several design books, including her first major published work, The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-authored by Ogden Codman . Another of her "home and garden" books

6992-574: Was discovered, in 2017. It had a radio adaptation broadcast on BBC Radio 3, in 2018. It wouldn't be until 2023, over a century later, that the world stage premiere took place in Canada at the Shaw Festival , directed by Peter Hinton-Davis. She collaborated with Marie Tempest to write another play, but the two only completed four acts, before Marie decided she was no longer interested in costume plays. One of her earliest literary endeavors (1902)

7084-432: Was her primary residence, until 1911. When living there and while traveling abroad, Wharton was usually driven to appointments by her longtime chauffeur and friend, Charles Cook, a native of nearby South Lee, Massachusetts . When her marriage deteriorated, she decided to move, permanently, to France, living, first, at 53 Rue de Varenne, Paris , in an apartment that belonged to George Washington Vanderbilt II . Wharton

7176-803: Was incorporated into SuccessfulMatch.com. The MPWH business frame is based on a membership system, people with Herpes create profiles with anonymous usernames and join in free of charge. Members have the options to hide or open their profiles or photos to others. The community supports features, such as Latest Activities, Browse, SPARK, Private Album, Winks, Connections, Messages, Blog, etc. The MPWH uses Tinder-style matching function called "SPARK" for members finding their matches. "SPARK" offers members' photos with age, gender, location to swipe and encourage members upload photos to enjoy swiping. Members swipe left 'pass' and swipe right to 'like'. If members like each other, MPWH will let them know. Cosmopolitan magazine Cosmopolitan (stylized in all caps )

7268-574: Was landscape architect Beatrix Farrand . Edith was baptized April 20, 1862, Easter Sunday , at Grace Church . Wharton's paternal family, the Joneses, were a very wealthy and socially prominent family, having made their money in real estate. The saying " keeping up with the Joneses " is said to refer to her father's family. She was related to the Rensselaers , the most prestigious of the old patroon families, who had received land grants from

7360-560: Was launched in May 1973. It continued publication until December 2018 when the licence holder Bauer Media axed the title, stating that it was no longer commercially viable. In 2023 it was reported that Hearst wanted to relaunch Cosmopolitan in Australia. The publication was relaunched in August of 2024. In 1973 there was a merger between Cosmopolitan and the Italian magazine Arianna , published by Mondadori since in 1957, assuming

7452-460: Was not considered a proper occupation for a society woman of her time. Consequently, the poem was published under the name of a friend's father, E. A. Washburn, a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson , who supported women's education. In 1877, at the age of 15, she secretly wrote a novella , Fast and Loose . In 1878, her father arranged for a collection of two dozen original poems and five translations, Verses, to be privately published. Wharton published

7544-575: Was originally marketed as a woman's fashion magazine with articles on home, family, and cooking. For some time it focused more on new fiction and written work, which included short stories, novels, and articles. Now it is more targeted towards women's fashion, sports and modern interests. Eventually, editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown changed its attention to more of a women's empowerment magazine. Nowadays, its content includes articles discussing relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion, horoscopes, and beauty. Cosmopolitan

7636-548: Was preparing to vacation for the summer, when World War I broke out. Though many fled Paris, she moved back to her Paris apartment on the Rue de Varenne and for four years, she was a tireless and ardent supporter of the French war effort. One of the first causes she undertook, in August 1914, was the opening of a workroom for unemployed women. Here, they were fed and paid one franc a day. What began, with 30 women, soon doubled, to 60 women, and their sewing business began to thrive. When

7728-409: Was published in the October 1918 issue (two years after London's death ), and a constant presence from 1910 to 1918 was Arthur B. Reeve , with 82 stories featuring Craig Kennedy , the "scientific detective". Magazine illustrators included Francis Attwood, Dean Cornwell , Harrison Fisher , and James Montgomery Flagg . Hearst formed Cosmopolitan Productions (also known as Cosmopolitan Pictures),

7820-433: Was published: "Mrs. Manstey's View" had very little success, and it took her more than a year to publish another story. She completed "The Fullness of Life,” following her annual European trip with Teddy. Burlingame was critical of this story, but Wharton did not want to make edits to it. This story, along with many others, speaks about her marriage. She sent Bunner Sisters to Scribner's, in 1892. Burlingame wrote back that it

7912-423: Was rejected by Burlingame, she lost confidence in herself. She started travel writing , in 1894. In 1901, Wharton wrote a two-act play called Man of Genius . This play was about an English man who was having an affair with his secretary. The play was rehearsed but was never produced. Another 1901 play, The Shadow of a Doubt , which also came close to being staged but fell through, was thought to be lost, until it

8004-400: Was said to suffer from asthma and periods of depression. In 1908, Teddy Wharton's mental condition was determined to be incurable. In that year, Wharton began an affair with Morton Fullerton , an author, and foreign correspondent for The Times of London, in whom she found an intellectual partner. She divorced Edward Wharton, in 1913, after 28 years of marriage. Around the same time, she

8096-633: Was serialized, as was his The First Men in the Moon (1900). Olive Schreiner contributed a lengthy two-part article about the Boer War in the September and October issues of 1900. In 1905, William Randolph Hearst purchased the magazine for US$ 400,000 (equivalent to $ 13,564,000 in 2023) and brought in journalist Charles Edward Russell , who contributed a series of investigative articles, including "The Growth of Caste in America" (March 1907), "At

8188-438: Was shortened to Hearst's and was ultimately titled Hearst's International in May 1922. In order to spare serious cutbacks at San Simeon , Hearst merged the magazine Hearst's International with Cosmopolitan effective March 1925. But while the Cosmopolitan title on the cover remained at a typeface of eighty-four points , over time span the typeface of the Hearst's International decreased to thirty-six points and then to

8280-662: Was the translation of the play Es Lebe das Leben ("The Joy of Living"), by Hermann Sudermann. The Joy of Living was criticized for its title, because the heroine swallows poison, at the end, and was a short-lived Broadway production. It was, however, a successful book. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by subtle use of dramatic irony . Having grown up in upper-class, late-19th-century society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics, in such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence . Versions of her mother, Lucretia Jones, often appeared in Wharton's fiction. Biographer Hermione Lee described it as "one of

8372-406: Was too long for Scribner's to publish. This story is believed to be based on an experience she had as a child. It did not see publication until 1916, and it is included in the collection called Xingu . After a visit with her friend, Paul Bourget , she wrote "The Good May Come" and "The Lamp of Psyche.” "The Lamp of Psyche" was a comical story, with verbal wit and sorrow. After "Something Exquisite"

8464-425: Was very critical of her work and wrote public reviews criticizing it. She also wrote about her own experiences with life. "Intense Love's Utterance" is a poem written about Henry Stevens. In 1889, she sent out three poems for publication, to Scribner's , Harper's and Century . Edward L. Burlingame published "The Last Giustiniani" for Scribner's . It was not until Wharton was 29 that her first short story

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