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The Victoria Magazine

Country: UK

Arguably the first "women's lib" magazine as it staunchly furthered the woman's cause. It published regular serials and stories including work by T.A. Trollope, George Macdonald, F.D. Maurice, Adelaide Procter, Edith Nesbit.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1863 – Jun-1880: Index to Periodical Literature
Publishers:   The Victoria Press
Editors:   Emily Faithfull
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   British Literary Magazines Vol. 3

The Victorian Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 12

The Victorian Magazine was rather boring in appearance and content with perhaps one exception, a piece by the "English opium eater" Thomas De Quincey, although it could also boast a serials by Mrs. Oliphant and Sarah Doudney.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1891 – Nov-1892: FictionMags Index

#merges with Atalanta

Publishers

  Hutchinson & Co., Paternoster Square, E.C.

Editors

  A.B. Symington

Prices

  6d

Frequency

  monthly

The Victoria Penny Stories

Country: UK

Monthly supplement to "Christian Herald", published on the first of every month, and containing "a well illustrated Complete Story of twelve pages, in coloured cover, and also a Sermon by some eminent preacher, and two pages of Anecdotes".

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1900s: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   4 Western Esplanade, Portslade, Sussex
Frequency:   monthly

Victor Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 23

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1896 – Jul-1898: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)
Publishers:   R. F. Fenno & Co., 9 and 11 East 16th St. New York, NY
Formats:   7½ x 5"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   300
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Victor Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 250

Issues & Index Sources:  1896: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   George Munro's Sons, 17 to 27 Vandewater St., New York, NY
Formats:   4 7/8 x 7¼"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   150 to 200
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Victory

Country: India

Subtitled "The Weekly for the Indian Command". Contained a mixture of stories, articles, features and poems.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   J.F. Parr
Formats:   5.25" x 7.5"
Prices:   45c
Pagecounts:   76pp
Frequency:   weekly

Viewpoint

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  15-Nov-1974 – ?
Publishers:   Viewpoint
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   weekly


Vignette

Country: US

Themed all-fiction quarterly.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1990s
Publishers:   P.O. Box 109, Hollywood, CA 90078-0109 (in 1998)
Editors:   Dawn Baillie (in 1998)
Frequency:   quarterly

The Village Rambler Magazine

see under The Rambler Magazine

The Village Voice

Country: US

Primarily a local (Greenwich Village, New York) news and listings magazine of radical sympathies, it has published a good deal of literary journalism (Norman Mailer was one of the original investors, and wrote an early column), as well as occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  26-Oct-1955 – ?

Publishers

  1955 – 1970: Edwin Fancher & Daniel Wolf
  1970 – 1974: Carter Burden
  1974 – 1977: Clay Felker
  1977 – ?: Rupert Murdoch

Editors

  1955 – 1974: Daniel Wolf
  1975 – ?: Thomas B. Morgan

Frequency

  weekly

The Vineyard

Country: UK
Total Issues: 48+8+8=64

Called itself "A Monthly Magazine devoted to the Literature of Peasant Life." Mostly non-fiction but including poetry and stories, including a serial by Selma Lagerlof ("Liliecrona's Home" 1913).

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1910 – Sep-1914
  Christmas 1918 – Sep-1920
  Jan-1921 – Dec-1922, as The Country Heart: FictionMags Index (partial issues only)

Publishers

  A.C. Fifield, London for the Peasant Arts Guild

Editors

  Apr-1911 – Sep-1920: Maude Egerton King

Formats

  digest

Prices

  6d

Pagecounts

  70pp

Frequency

  Oct-1910 – Sep-1914: monthly
  Christmas 1918 – Sep-1920: quarterly
  Jan-1921 – Dec-1922: quarterly

Violent Legends

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Semi-professional magazine. This one-shot was preceded several years earlier by a similar one-issue title, Whispered Legends.

Issues & Index Sources:  1988: Science Fiction Index
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Violent Spectres

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4

Small press fantasy/horror fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1995 – #4, 1996: Science Fiction Index
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The Violet Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 309

The romantic-fiction companion to The Red Magazine and The Yellow Magazine. Contributors include G.H. Teed, Gwyn Evans, Coutts Brisbane.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1922 – Nov-1939: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

#incorporated into The Girls' Friend Library

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Jul-1922 – Dec-1929: probably Leonard Pratt

Formats

  7" x 8¾"

Pagecounts

  112pp

Frequency

  Jul-1922 – Oct-1922: monthly
  Nov-1922 – 3-Jan-1930: fortnightly
  Feb-1930 – Nov-1939: monthly

Mentioned in:   The Age of the Storytellers
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The Violet Novels

Country: UK
Total Issues: 340

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – 6-Apr-1933
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Frequency:   2 titles per month


Violet Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 156?

"An exquisite new series of paper-covered books, comprising a most attractive list of modern standard fiction, selected especially for women readers, and including only many charming novels by modern authors of world-wide reputation."

Issues & Index Sources:  28-Mar-1900 – 1904: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)
Publishers:   F.M. Lupton, 52-58 Duane St., New York, NY; Federal Book Company, New York, NY
Formats:   7 x 4¾"
Prices:   10c (Lupton); 15c (Federal Book Co.)
Pagecounts:   125-200
Frequency:   semi-weekly; monthly.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The Virginia Quarterly Review

Country: US

A noted literary magazine. Published works by D.H. Lawrence, Conrad Aiken, and more recently Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olin Butler, Ann Beattie. Circulation 3,200.

Issues & Index Sources:  1925 – present: Short Story Index (ShStIdx missing all before 1974 at least; FicMags sample issues only)
FictionMags Index
Website:   www.vqronline.org
Publishers:   University of Virginia, One West Range, P.O. Box 400223, Charlottesville, VA 22903-4223 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Archibald Bolling Shepperson (in 1940), Staige D. Blackford (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $5
Pagecounts:   188pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)


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