Journalist, Author. The wife of Philadelphia publishing magnate Charles H. K. Curtis, she contributed a column titled “Women At Home” in her husband’s magazine “Tribune and Farmer”. The column became so popular that it spawned a separate magazine in 1883 that became known as “The Ladies Home Journal”. Read by over a million subscribers at it’s height, she served as the magazine’s editor from 1883 to 1889.  Family links:  Spouse:  Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850 – 1933)*  Children:  Mary Louise Curtis Zimbalist (1876 – 1970)* *Calculated relationship Note: Louisa was the Editor of the Ladies Home Journal.