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Magazine Issues

Home Chat

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3344

Story-paper with stablemates Home Companion and Home Mirror.

Issues & Index Sources

23-Mar-1895 – 25-Apr-1959:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with Woman's Weekly

Publishers

Harmsworth, later Amalgamated Press

Editors

1895 – ?: Leicester Harmsworth
in 1920s: Maud Brown

Frequency

weekly

Home Cheer

Country: US

Subtitled "A Family Journal".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1900s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: R.P. Collins & Co., New York
Frequency: monthly

Home Chimes

Country: UK
Total Issues: 212

A miscellany dominated by fiction, mostly by little-known authors; it serialized Jerome K. Jerome's humorous classic "Three Men in a Boat," 1888-1889; also published "Man Size In Marble" by Edith Nesbit and work by J.S. Fletcher, Richard Marsh, etc.

Issues & Index Sources

2-Jan-1884 – Dec-1894

Publishers

Richard Willoughby, London

Editors

F.W. Robinson

Formats

smaller than standard format (5.75" x 8"), unillustrated

Prices

1/-

Pagecounts

circa 80pp

Frequency

  2-Jan-1884 – 26-Dec-1885: weekly
  Jan-1886 – Dec-1894: monthly

Mentioned in:   The Age of the Storytellers

Home Circle [1869]

Country: US
Total Issues: 1044

Issues & Index Sources:  1869 – 1888

Publishers:   Gleason
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The Home Circle [1901]

Country: UK

Variously retitled New Home Circle, Home Circle and Family Fun.

Issues & Index Sources: 1901 – 1915

Publishers: Amalgamated Press

The Home Companion (UK) [1897]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3079

Story-paper sister to Home Chat. Incorporates: Family Favourite; Ladies' Home Paper

Issues & Index Sources

16-Feb-1897 – 31-May-1941

7-Jun-1941 – 25-Feb-1956, as Home Companion and Family Journal:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

#merges with Home Chat

Publishers

Harmsworth

Editors

1897 – ?: Leicester Harmsworth
in 1920s: Maud Brown

Frequency

weekly

Home Companion: A Monthly for Young People

see under Woman's Home Companion

Home Companion: A Monthly for Young People

see under Woman's Home Companion

The Home Fiction Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Rebinding of the May 1925 issue of Complete Novel Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1925:

General Fiction Index

Publishers:   Novel Magazine Corporation
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp


Issue Checklist

The Home Friend [1852]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 104?

Regularly ran stories including a series of 'Fireside Tales' by Jane Alice Sargent.

Issues & Index Sources

1852 – 1854

1854 – 1856

(possibly phantom)

Publishers

Christian Knowledge Society

Frequency

weekly

The Home Friend [1880]

The Home Friend [1904]

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1904? – ?: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   United Publishing Company, Kansas City, MO
Editors:   John Meagher
Formats:   13 3/8" x 10¼" newsprint
Prices:   35c per year
Frequency:   monthly

The Home Herald

Country: UK
Total Issues: 26

Family paper; there was a later paper of the same name with #476, March 1897.

Issues & Index Sources: 9-May-1877 – 31-Oct-1877

Formats: small tabloid
Frequency: weekly

The Home Journal (US) [1846]

Country: US

Initially a miscellany of news, verse and gossip, but steadily introduced more fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

14-Feb-1846 – 14-Nov-1946, as The National Press

21-Nov-1946 – ?, as The Home Journal

(retitled Town and Country)

Publishers

1846 – 1867: Nathaniel P. Willis
1925 – ?: Hearst

Editors

  ?: Nathaniel P. Willis
  ?: George Pope Morris
  1925 – ?: Harry Bull
  1949 – ?: Henry B. Sell

Frequency

weekly

The Home Journal (UK) [1872]

Country: UK

A family paper of 'news and novels, fancy and criticism'. Waite states it lasted for less than two years; the BL does not list the title for this period.

Issues & Index Sources: 1872 – 1874?

Frequency: weekly?

The Home Journal (Canada) [1905]

see under Canadian Home Journal

Home Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1885 – Apr-1886: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Cobb, Baldwin
Formats:   8 x 6"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   64
Frequency:   Monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Home Library of Powerful and Dramatic Tales

Country: UK
Total Issues: 64

Issues & Index Sources: 1886 – 1896

Publishers: Aldine Publishing Co.

Home Library of Select Literature

Country: US
Total Issues: 50

"Each Number Contains a Complete, First-Class Novel by a Celebrated Author."

Issues & Index Sources: in 1890s:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Formats:   11½ x 8¼"
Pagecounts:   16pp
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Home Life

Country: US

A newsprint publication aimed primarily at women in the larger urban centers, including assorted poems, articles and fiction pieces, one of them by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Issues & Index Sources

in 1910s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with The Mother's Magazine

Publishers

Home Life Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois

Editors

Josephine Conger-Kaneko