Magazine Data File

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Magazine Issues

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

The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls

Country: UK

A family paper which ran occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1877 – Dec-1879

Jan-1880 – Oct-1925, as The Home Friend

Nov-1925 – Dec-1931, as The Scottish Girls' Friendly Society Magazine

Jan-1932 – ?, as The Scottish Girl

Frequency

monthly

The Home Magazine [1931]

Country: US

Distributed only through the Woolworth's stores.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1929 – Sep-1935:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Tower Magazines, Inc., Washington and South Ave, Dunellen, NJ
Editors:   Verne Porter
Formats:   large format slick
Prices:   20c
Frequency:   monthly

The Home Magazine [1856]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 490 (approximately)

subtitled 'A Journal of Entertainment and Instruction'

Issues & Index Sources: 1856 – 1866

Home [1879]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 35

"A literary and domestic magazine" which serialised Mrs. Riddell's "Daisies and Buttercups". A special Christmas issue for 1880 was put together by Mrs. Riddell's friends and featured fiction by Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Craik, Mrs. Riddell and others.

After May-1882 it changed it's name to St. Bride's, a Magazine for the City and the West-End.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1879 – May-1882:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Trafford and Company, 15 Wine-Office Court, Fleet Street, EC
Editors:   Mrs. J.H. Riddell
Prices:   6d

Home Magazine [1888]

Country: US

Merged with Madame in 1906 and with Uncle Remus's Magazine in May-1908, but retained own numbering throughout.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1888 – Apr-1908:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers

  1888 – 1904: Brodix Publishing Co., Washington DC
  1904 – 1906: P.V. Collins, Minneapolis
  1906 – 1908: Bobbs-Merrill

Editors

  ?: Mrs John A. Logan
  1896 – 1899: Arthur T. Vance
  1900 – 1904: Francis P. Elliott

Formats

large tabloid

Prices

The Home Magazine [1898]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 146

A churchified offering that ran some short fiction but nothing of interest.

Issues & Index Sources

1898 – 29-Dec-1900

#merges with The Sunday Strand

Publishers

Newnes

Frequency

weekly

The Home Magazine [1918]

see under The Woman at Home

The Home Magazine of Fiction

see under The Lady's Magazine

Home Mirror

Country: UK
Total Issues: 207+133+44=384

See note under Home Chat.

Issues & Index Sources

11-Oct-1919 – 29-Sep-1923

6-Oct-1923 – 17-Apr-1926

24-Apr-1926 – 25-Feb-1927

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

Maud Brown

Formats

large digest booklet, mostly of complete short novels

Frequency

weekly

The Home Monthly

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1900s: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   The Home Monthly Publishing Company, 225 William Street, New York City
Editors:   Lida A. Churchill

Home Notes

Country: UK

Ran one serial plus a story or two; most contributors anonymous but known to include Mrs Hungerford; Winifred Graham, Florence Warden, Ada Cambridge.

Issues & Index Sources

18-Jan-1894 – 12-Jun-1958:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with Woman's Own

Publishers

1894 – ?: C.A. Pearson

Editors

Isobel Thorne

Formats

large review size (6"x9.5")

Prices

Pagecounts

32pp

Frequency

weekly


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Home Novels

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s