Magazine Data File

Magazine Data Page 618
Magazine Issues

Wohelo

see under Everygirl's (Magazine)

Wolf Cub

Country: UK
Total Issues: 48

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1916 – Dec-1920

#incorporated into The Scout

Publishers

C. Arthur Pearson

Pagecounts

8pp

Frequency

monthly

The Wolverine

Country: US

Fanzine that published some early stories by H.P. Lovecraft.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1920:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Horace L Lawson, 54 Davison Avenue. W., Detroit, Michigan
Editors:   Horace L. Lawson
Formats:   6" x 8"
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   quarterly

Woman [1898]

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1898 – Jun-1907

Editors:   Arnold Bennett
Frequency:   monthly

Woman [1906]

Country: US
Total Issues: 8

This magazine was predominently fiction, was started by Munsey in November 1906 and merged with The Scrap Book after the June 1907 issue.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1906 – Jun-1907

#merges with The Scrap Book

Publishers

Munsey

Frequency

monthly

Woman [1924]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 64

A high-quality slick magazine issued to celebrate the world of the "New Woman". Fiction was a key element with a serial and four or five stories per issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1924 – Jul-1929:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Hutchinson
Editors:   Miss Jerome; Ida Lascelles
Formats:   slick
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Age of the Storytellers

Woman [1937]

Country: UK

Ran short stories and serials.

Issues & Index Sources

1937 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Website: www.ti-media.com/brands/woman/

Publishers

Odhams Press, later IPC

Editors

in 1962: Mary Grieve
in 1997 – in 2004: Carole Russell

Frequency

weekly

Woman and Beauty

Country: UK

"Fiction: high-grade writing... offbeat fiction and the short-short story, and two or three part serials as well".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s

Publishers:   Fleetway Publications Ltd, Fleetway House, Farringdon St., London EC4
Editors:   Jean Lorimer (in 1962)
Frequency:   monthly

Woman and Home

Country: UK

Ran short stories and serials in 1962; still in existence as an IPC monthly in 2000, and still publishing fiction: "complete stories from 1000 - 5000 words".

Issues & Index Sources

1926 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Website: www.ti-media.com/brands/woman-home/

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, later IPC

Editors

  in 1962: Jean D. Twiddy
  in 1997: Jan Henderson
  in 2000: Sarah Kilby
  in 2004: Sue James

Formats

big slick?

Frequency

monthly

The Woman at Home

Country: UK
Total Issues: 447

Strand-type magazine with features and fiction. Aimed at women with young children. Ran regular stories by Annie S. Swan. Under the later name of The Home Magazine was famous for first publishing Richmal Crompton's "William" stories (from Feb-1919). That series moved to The Happy Mag. in Jun-1922.

It absorbed The Sunday Strand from Jul-1910, and The Girls Realm (which was briefly incorporated into the title) from Dec-1915. It also absorbed The Ladies' Field from Aug-1928 (also incorporated briefly. into the title)

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1893 – May-1918:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: most issues after Mar-1902)

Jun-1918 – May-1922, as The Home Magazine:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Jun-1922 – Oct-1922, as The Ladies' Home Magazine

Nov-1922 – Jan-1931, as The Home Magazine:

FictionMags Index

(incomplete)

#merges with Homes and Gardens

Publishers

Oct-1893 – Jul-1909: Hodder & Stoughton
Aug-1909 – Jan-1931: Newnes

Editors

  Oct-1893 – Jun-1909: Jane T. Stoddart (though listed as Annie Swan)
  Jul-1909 – May-1918: Alice M. Head
  Jun-1918 – 1921: Miss M. Cruickshank
  1921 – 1929: Beatrice Goodwin
  1930 – Jan-1931: Elsie H. Shand

Formats

standard (glossy slick from Mar-1920 to Aug-1920)

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: The Age of the Storytellers



Issue Checklist

Womankind

Country: US

A "journal for woman and home".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1890s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Hosterman Publishing Co., Springfield, Ohio
Frequency: monthly

Woman's Companion

Country: UK

Woman's story paper. Possibly absorbed into Woman's Weekly on 25-Mar-1961.

Issues & Index Sources: 1927? – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Formats:   7.5" x 10.5" (in 1945)
Prices:   3d (in 1945)
Pagecounts:   28pp (in 1945)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's Day

Country: US

A magazine sold through A.& P. stores; by 1955 had a circulation of 3.575 million.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1937 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: originally Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Editors: Eileen Tighe (in 1940)



More Images

Woman's Day (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 173

Issues & Index Sources

22-Mar-1958 – Sep-1961

#merges with Woman's Own

Publishers

George Newnes

Woman's Friend

Country: UK

Woman's story paper. Absorbed Lady's Companion in 1940, and was called Woman's Friend and Lady's Companion for a while at least. Absorbed by Glamour in Sep-1950.

Issues & Index Sources

16-Feb-1924? – Aug-1950:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

#merges with Glamour (UK)

Publishers

C. Arthur Pearson

Formats

7.5" x 10.5" (in 1936); 10" x 12.5" (in 1941)

Prices

2d (in 1936); 2½d (in 1941)

Pagecounts

32pp (in 1936); 24pp (in 1941)

Frequency

weekly

Woman's Home Companion

Country: US

One of the most successful women's titles, with a circulation eventually exceeding 4 million. Authors of fiction included Edna Ferber, Pearl S. Buck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shirley Jackson, John Steinbeck.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1874 – 1878, as The Home

1878 – Oct-1886, as Home Companion:

Nov-1886 – Dec-1896, as Ladies' Home Companion:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Jan-1897 – Jan-1957, as Woman's Home Companion:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  1874 – 1877: Thorpe & Bros., Cleveland, Ohio
  1877 – 1881: S.L. Thorpe, Cleveland, Ohio
  1881 – 1883: Harvey & Finn, Cleveland, Ohio
  1883 – 1898) and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1891-1895: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, Springfield, Ohio
  1898 – 1901: Crowell & Kirkpatrick Co., Springfield, Ohio
  1901 – 1939: Crowell Publishing Company, published in Springfield, Ohio but editorial offices in New York
  1939 – 1957: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, New York and Springfield, Ohio

Editors

  1874 – 1881: S.L. Thorpe
  1881 – 1883: E.B. Harvey
  1883 – 1896: T.J. Kirkpatrick
  1896 – 1900: Joseph Franklin Henderson
  1900 – 1906: Arthur Turner Vance
  1906 – 1911: Frederick L. Collins
  1912 – 1941: Gertrude B. Lane
  1941 – 1943: Willa Roberts (Plank)
  1943 – 1952: William A. H. Birnie
  1953 – 1956: Woodrow Wirsig
  1956 – 1957: Theodore Strauss