The Delineator

The Delineator was an American women's magazine of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founded by the Butterick Publishing Company in 1869 under the name The Metropolitan Monthly.

[1] In November 1926, under the editorship of Mrs. William Brown Meloney, it absorbed The Designer, founded in 1887 and published by the Standard Fashion Company, a Butterick subsidiary.

[2] One of its managing editors was writer Theodore Dreiser, who worked with other members of the staff such as Sarah Field Splint (later known for writing cookbooks ) and Arthur Sullivant Hoffman.

Charles Dwyer, editor from 1894–1906, expanded the magazine's coverage to include editorials, fiction, and women's increasing involvement in public life.

[5] His successor, Theodore Dreiser published articles addressing women's roles as consumers, and invited readers to write in about current social problems.