My Life 100 Years Ago
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items: Children’s Books: Your 1925 Holiday Guide
items: One last summer swim in 1925
items: Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, and Literary Beefs
items: July 1925 Magazine Covers Celebrate America’s Spirit
items: The Best and Worst of the New Yorker’s First Issue
items: The Top Posts of 1924
items: Children’s Books: Your 1924 Holiday Shopping Guide
items: A Double Rainbow of 1924 Magazine Covers
items: The Top Posts of 1923
items: Children’s Books: Your 1923 Holiday Shopping Guide

Children’s Books: Your 1925 Holiday Guide
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2026-01-01T05:06:34Z
subject: Books
subject: Magazines
subject: 1925
subject: A.A. Milne
subject: Annie Carroll Moore
subject: children's books
subject: Christmas
subject: F. Scott Fitzgerald
subject: Holiday Shopping Guide
subject: Maxfield Parish
subject: N.C. Wyeth
subject: The Bookman
subject: The Great Gatsby
description: 1925 is the best children’s book year ever! Or a total washout! It depends on whether you believe the New York Times, whose anonymous critic tells us in its November 8 holiday children’s book roundup that “never since man began to make books, have there been so many and such beautiful books for young readers,” […]
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One last summer swim in 1925
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2025-09-03T23:27:00Z
subject: Art and Illustration
subject: Magazines
subject: 1925
subject: bathing suits
subject: fashion
subject: Judge
subject: Life
subject: New Yorker
subject: summer
subject: tennis
subject: Vanity Fair
description: August in Washington, D.C., wound down in a very un-D.C. fashion, with moderate temperatures and low humidity, a far cry from the weather in late July when I went to the DC Open finals.* The women’s final, played in the afternoon after a long rain delay, felt like a battle to see which player could […]
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Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, and Literary Beefs
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2025-07-10T21:49:40Z
subject: Book Reviews
subject: Books
subject: Fiction and Poetry
subject: My Life in 1918
subject: 1920s
subject: 1922
subject: Arnold Bennett
subject: Dublin
subject: Jacob's Room
subject: Michelle de Kretser
subject: Modernism
subject: T.S. Eliot
subject: Virginia Woolf
description: I realize that it’s unreasonable to sign up for the annual meeting of the International T.S. Eliot Society, followed immediately by the T.S. Eliot International Summer School, and complain that people talk about T.S. Eliot too much. I became a member of the T.S. Eliot community in a roundabout way, though, my lifelong but low-key […]
encoded: I realize that it’s unreasonable to sign up for the annual meeting of the International T.S. Eliot Society, followed immediately by the T.S. Eliot International Summer School, and complain that people talk about T.S. Eliot too much. I became a member of the T.S. Eliot community in a roundabout way, though, my lifelong but low-key interest in his poetry having being reinvigorated when I encountered his early poems and criticism in “real time” during my year of reading as if I were living in 1918. The society’s annual meetings were online during COVID, which seemed like a low-investment way to dip my toe into Eliot studies. Next thing I knew, I was attending the 2022 summer school in London, followed by in-person conferences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and St. Louis, Missouri. In real life, I’m way more interested in Eliot than anyone else I know (as my loved ones occasionally gently remind me), but the Eliot community is, to put it mildly, not real life. Sometimes, a few days into a conference, I walk into a room, hear it buzzing with, “T.S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot,” and think that there must be more to life.* <img loading="lazy" width="573" height="735" data-attachment-id="17053" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/10/virginia-woolf-jacobs-room-and-literary-beefs/photo-eliot-and-woolf-1924-1/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo-eliot-and-woolf-1924-1.png" data-orig-size="573,735" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="photo &#8211; Eliot and Woolf &#8211; 1924 &#8211; 1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo-eliot-and-woolf-1924-1.png?w=573" data-large-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/photo…

July 1925 Magazine Covers Celebrate America’s Spirit
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2025-07-04T21:30:55Z
subject: Art and Illustration
subject: Magazines
subject: Conrad Dickel
subject: Fourth of July
subject: Fred G. Cooper
subject: Georges Lepape
subject: Ilonka Karasz
subject: Independence Day
subject: J.C. Leyendecker
subject: New Yorker
description: This year, a lot of Americans will be celebrating Independence Day in a minor key. I’m one of them. I’m spending our country’s anniversary in COVID isolation at Trinity College, Dublin, a set of circumstances not conducive to riotous celebration even at the best of times. I felt like I should mark the day somehow, […]
encoded: This year, a lot of Americans will be celebrating Independence Day in a minor key. I’m one of them. I’m spending our country’s anniversary in COVID isolation at Trinity College, Dublin, a set of circumstances not conducive to riotous celebration even at the best of times. I felt like I should mark the day somehow, though, so I’m sharing some magazine covers from July 1925 that show some of the many ways our country’s unquenchable spirit can be celebrated: spending the day at Coney Island, <img loading="lazy" width="512" height="721" data-attachment-id="16995" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/04/july-1925-magazine-covers-celebrate-americas-spirit/cover-new-yorker-7-4-2025-3/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cover-new-yorker-7-4-2025-2.png" data-orig-size="512,721" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="cover &#8211; New Yorker &#8211; 7-4-2025" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cover-new-yorker-7-4-2025-2.png?w=512" data-large-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cover-new-yorker-7-4-2025-2.png?w=512" src="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cover-new-yorker-7-4-2025-2.png?w=512" alt="" class="wp-image-16995" style="width:256px;height:auto" /> Ilonka Karasz, July 4, 1925 lighting a festive lantern, <img loading="lazy" width="547" height="784" data-attachment-id="16997" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/04/july-1925-magazine-covers-celebrate-americas-spirit/cover-st-nicholas-july-1925/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cover-st.-nicholas-july-1925.png" data-orig-size="547,784" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"apert…

The Best and Worst of the New Yorker’s First Issue
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2025-02-28T16:25:38Z
subject: Art and Illustration
subject: Best and Worst
subject: Magazines
subject: Adele Astaire
subject: Fred Astaire
subject: Harold Ross
subject: Marc Connelly
subject: Mary Hayford
subject: Murdock Penderton
subject: New York
subject: New Yorker
subject: Rea Irvin
subject: Sarah Gertrude Millin
description: I grew up with the New Yorker. My family had a subscription. We had a huge cartoon collection that I browsed through constantly. My high school English teacher explained the proper way to read the magazine: front to back, skipping the cartoons and ads, then back to front, reading them. I read books like James […]
encoded: I grew up with the New Yorker. My family had a subscription. We had a huge cartoon collection that I browsed through constantly. My high school English teacher explained the proper way to read the magazine: front to back, skipping the cartoons and ads, then back to front, reading them. I read books like James Thurber’s memoir The Years With Ross (Harold Ross was the magazine’s founding editor) and Brandon Gill’s Here at the New Yorker. I knew from all this reading that the magazine’s early issues were considered unfunny and sophomoric. So I approached the first issue, dated February 22, 1925, with low expectations. Which were mostly, but not entirely, met. Here are some bests and worsts from the 36-page issue. Actually, worsts and bests, because with the way everything else is going these days I’m in the mood to end on an upbeat note. Worst Archetype An editor’s note in the debut issue says that the New Yorker “is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.” This now-famous bon mot also appeared in the magazine’s prospectus and, according to an article about the magazine in the March 2, 1925, issue of Time, “on cards which they tacked up about town.”* Time claimed to have asked an old lady from Dubuque for her views on the New Yorker’s first issue. The old lady, who was actually Time (and, later, New Yorker) writer Niven Busch, replied, “I, and my associates here, have never subscribed to the view that bad taste is any the less offensive because it is metropolitan taste…there is no provincialism so blatant as that of the metropolitan who lacks urbanity.” <img data-attachment-id="16356" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/02/28/the-best-and-worst-of-the-new-yorkers-first-issue/mary-hayford-encyclopedia-dubuque/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/mary-hayford-encyclopedia-dubuque.png" data-orig-size="554,771" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timesta…

The Top Posts of 1924
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2025-01-09T20:19:00Z
subject: Art and Illustration
subject: Magazines
subject: 1925
subject: Coles Phillips
subject: F.G. Cooper
subject: Georges Lepape
subject: J.C. Leyendecker
subject: John Held Jr.
subject: New Year's
subject: New Year's baby
description: Belated happy New Year, everyone, and welcome to the (can it be?) eighth year of My Life 100 Years Ago.* This year’s J.C. Leyendecker New Year’s baby apparently just registered his new car and immediately has to repair it, which I gather is par for the course for ca. 1925 vehicles. Cars can be fun, […]
encoded: Belated happy New Year, everyone, and welcome to the (can it be?) eighth year of My Life 100 Years Ago.* <img loading="lazy" width="407" height="583" data-attachment-id="15832" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/01/09/the-top-posts-of-1924/jc-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1925-1-1-2025/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jc-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1925-1-1-2025.png" data-orig-size="407,583" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="JC Leyendecker New Year&#8217;s Baby 1925 &#8211; 1-1-2025" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jc-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1925-1-1-2025.png?w=407" data-large-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jc-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1925-1-1-2025.png?w=407" src="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jc-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1925-1-1-2025.png?w=407" alt="" class="wp-image-15832" style="width:234px;height:auto" /> J.C. Leyendecker, January 3, 1925 This year’s J.C. Leyendecker New Year’s baby apparently just registered his new car and immediately has to repair it, which I gather is par for the course for ca. 1925 vehicles. <img loading="lazy" width="343" height="497" data-attachment-id="15920" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2025/01/09/the-top-posts-of-1924/judge-1-5-1925/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/judge-1-5-1925.png" data-orig-size="343,497" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Judge &#8211; 1-5-1925" data-image-descr…

Children’s Books: Your 1924 Holiday Shopping Guide
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2024-12-25T20:25:13Z
subject: Books
subject: Fiction and Poetry
subject: Magazines
subject: Nonfiction
subject: 1924
subject: Annie Carroll Moore
subject: Christmas
subject: Fred Woodward
subject: New York Times
subject: St. Nicholas magazine
subject: The Bookman
description: Welcome to the sixth annual children’s books holiday shopping guide! I’ve just arrived in Cape Town from Washington, D.C., as I do at this time every year.* This year, determined to avoid a repetition of last year’s kind of pathetic effort, I got an earlier start. The problem was, I couldn’t stop myself from reading […]
encoded: Welcome to the sixth annual children’s books holiday shopping guide! I’ve just arrived in Cape Town from Washington, D.C., as I do at this time every year.* This year, determined to avoid a repetition of last year’s kind of pathetic effort, I got an earlier start. The problem was, I couldn’t stop myself from reading just one more 1924 roundup, or looking up just one more book, so here I am on Christmas Eve afternoon in full Bird by Bird mode. <img loading="lazy" width="407" height="286" data-attachment-id="15666" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2024/12/25/childrens-books-your-1924-holiday-shopping-guide/bookman-the-new-childrens-books-headline-2/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/bookman-the-new-childrens-books-headline-1.png" data-orig-size="407,286" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Bookman &#8211; The New Children&#8217;s Books &#8211; headline" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/bookman-the-new-childrens-books-headline-1.png?w=407" data-large-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/bookman-the-new-childrens-books-headline-1.png?w=407" src="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/bookman-the-new-childrens-books-headline-1.png?w=407" alt="" class="wp-image-15666" /> The Bookman, October 1924 This year, as always, pioneering children’s librarian Annie Carroll Moore** is my principal guide. And, as always, she’s kind of annoying. In her article in the May 1924 issue of The Bookman, she’s supposedly having a conversation with a young writer who’s published two children’s books and isn’t sure whether he should continue. Her reply, supposedly, is the whole rest of the article, with quotation mark…

A Double Rainbow of 1924 Magazine Covers
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2024-08-31T20:02:02Z
subject: Art and Illustration
subject: Magazines
subject: André Édouard Marty
subject: Eduardo Garcia Benito
subject: George Wolfe Plank
subject: Harriet Meserole
subject: House & Garden
subject: John Holmgren
subject: Joseph B. Platt
subject: Judge
subject: Life
subject: Pierre Brissaud
subject: Rafael de Panagos
subject: The Designer
subject: Vanity Fair
subject: Vogue
subject: Warren Davis
subject: Woman's Home Companion
description: I recently went on on a trip from Cape Town to Washington, D.C., Seattle, North Cascades National Park, Seattle again, Denver, D.C. again, and then back home to Cape Town, all in three weeks. It was wonderful, but it was too much: too many airports, too many suitcases, too many weird bathroom setups. (Well, two, […]
encoded: I recently went on on a trip from Cape Town to Washington, D.C., Seattle, North Cascades National Park, Seattle again, Denver, D.C. again, and then back home to Cape Town, all in three weeks. It was wonderful, but it was too much: too many airports, too many suitcases, too many weird bathroom setups. (Well, two, but that was two too many.) I kept saying to myself, “I’ll be so happy to just be able to hang out at home,” forgetting to take Cape Town winters into consideration and add, “provided that it doesn’t rain nonstop so that staying at home is the only option.” I went out walking every day when the rain let up, hoping to make it home before the skies opened again. On one of these walks I looked up and saw a double rainbow, which lifted my spirits tremendously. Cape Town is unfortunately not a place where it’s wise to to take out your phone and start snapping away while walking along a busy road, so I don’t have a photo of it. But I assume you’re familiar with the concept. I haven’t done a magazine illustration post in a while,* so I decided to pay tribute to that moment, and to summer from a Cape Town winter, with a rainbow of summer 1924 magazine covers. First up in vivid red is Spanish illustrator Eduardo Garcia Benito’s June Vanity Fair cover.** <img loading="lazy" width="427" height="565" data-attachment-id="14722" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2024/08/31/a-double-rainbow-of-1924-magazine-covers/screenshot-2024-07-15-164620-vanity-fair-6-1924-eduardo-garcia-benito-couple-dancing-red-yes-1/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/screenshot-2024-07-15-164620-vanity-fair-6-1924-eduardo-garcia-benito-couple-dancing-red-yes-1.png" data-orig-size="427,565" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screenshot 2024-07-15 164620 &…

The Top Posts of 1923
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2024-01-01T20:47:52Z
subject: Art and Illustration
subject: Magazines
subject: My Life in 1918
subject: Coles Phillips
subject: J.C. Leyendecker
subject: Rereading Our Childhood
subject: Top 10 Posts
description: Happy 2024, everyone! I don’t know if there’s some symbolism behind this year’s J.C. Leyendecker New Year’s baby that I’m missing, or if it’s just a baby knight riding a mechanical horse and using a feather as a lance. Any insights would be welcomed. Elsewhere, Life waxes whimsical, a skating duo rings in the new […]
encoded: Happy 2024, everyone! <img loading="lazy" width="510" height="740" data-attachment-id="13404" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2024/01/01/the-top-posts-of-1923/screenshot-2024-01-01-153040-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1924-1/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/screenshot-2024-01-01-153040-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1924-1.png" data-orig-size="510,740" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="screenshot-2024-01-01-153040-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1924-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/screenshot-2024-01-01-153040-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1924-1.png?w=510" data-large-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/screenshot-2024-01-01-153040-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1924-1.png?w=510" src="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/screenshot-2024-01-01-153040-leyendecker-new-years-baby-1924-1.png?w=510" alt="" class="wp-image-13404" style="width:198px;height:auto" /> I don’t know if there’s some symbolism behind this year’s J.C. Leyendecker New Year’s baby that I’m missing, or if it’s just a baby knight riding a mechanical horse and using a feather as a lance. Any insights would be welcomed. Elsewhere, Life waxes whimsical, <img loading="lazy" width="600" height="795" data-attachment-id="13425" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2024/01/01/the-top-posts-of-1923/screenshot-2024-01-01-174635-life-new-year-1923-1/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/screenshot-2024-01-01-174635-life-new-year-1923-1.png" data-orig-size="615,815" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","f…

Children’s Books: Your 1923 Holiday Shopping Guide
type: item
creator: Mary Grace McGeehan
date: 2023-12-24T20:45:38Z
subject: Books
subject: Fiction and Poetry
subject: Magazines
subject: Nonfiction
subject: Annie Carroll Moore
subject: children's books
subject: Christmas
subject: Holiday Shopping Guide
subject: Louis Untermeyer
subject: New York Times
description: Welcome to the fifth annual children’s books holiday shopping guide! It’s been a hectic holiday season, including a trip from Washington, D.C., to Cape Town less than a week ago (I split my time between the two cities), so this is a pared-down edition. My research this year started out with a big disappointment: it […]
encoded: Welcome to the fifth annual children’s books holiday shopping guide! It’s been a hectic holiday season, including a trip from Washington, D.C., to Cape Town less than a week ago (I split my time between the two cities), so this is a pared-down edition. My research this year started out with a big disappointment: it turns out that the 1922 edition of Publisher’s Weekly’s annual Christmas Bookshelf issue, which had been one of the highlights of my My Life 100 Years Ago year, was the last. Why, Publisher’s Weekly? Why? <img loading="lazy" width="267" height="391" data-attachment-id="13343" data-permalink="https://mylife100yearsago.com/2023/12/24/childrens-books-your-1923-holiday-shopping-guide/screenshot-2023-12-23-115817-bookman-cover-december-1923-crop/" data-orig-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/screenshot-2023-12-23-115817-bookman-cover-december-1923-crop.png" data-orig-size="267,391" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="screenshot-2023-12-23-115817-bookman-cover-december-1923-crop" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/screenshot-2023-12-23-115817-bookman-cover-december-1923-crop.png?w=267" data-large-file="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/screenshot-2023-12-23-115817-bookman-cover-december-1923-crop.png?w=267" src="https://mylife100yearsago.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/screenshot-2023-12-23-115817-bookman-cover-december-1923-crop.png?w=267" alt="" class="wp-image-13343" /> Luckily, there’s still a lot of coverage, including holiday roundups in the New York Times, one on children’s books and another buone on books for the general reader with lots of books older children might enjoy. And, as always, pioneering children’s librarian Anni…