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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

Formats

big slick

Frequency

  1874 – 1889: monthly
  1880 – 1896: semi-monthly
  1896 – 1957: monthly

Related Sites

Wikipedia
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Online Sources

Hathi Trust
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Woman's Illustrated

Country: UK

Woman's magazine that generally published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1936 – 1961?

Publishers: Amalgamated Press

Woman's Journal [1870]

Country: US

American women's rights periodical that published some stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and others.

Issues & Index Sources

8-Jan-1870 – 1917

1917 – 1927, as The Woman Citizen

1927 – Jun-1931, as The Woman's Journal

Editors

Lucy Stone & Henry Browne Blackwell

Formats

broadsheet

Frequency

initially weekly, then bi-weekly, then monthly

Related Sites

Wikipedia

Woman's Journal [1927]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 889

An impressive British slick at its outset: a sample issue from Jun-1928, over 12" high by 9" wide, has 192 pages (price 1/-), with fiction by John Galsworthy ("Swan Song," Part 3), A.A. Milne (segments of "The House at Pooh Corner"), Fanny Heaslip Lea, E. Barrington, Betty Trask, etc. A sample issue from May-1999, somewhat smaller in dimensions, has 146 pages (price \2.30) and contains no fiction at all, though it does have an interview with Salman Rushdie (about his love life).

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1927 – Mar-1967?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Apr-1967? – 1969?, as Woman's Home Journal:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

1969? – Feb-2002, as Woman's Journal:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, later IPC Magazines, London

Editors

  1927 – 1944: Harold W. Snoad
  1946 – 1964: Forothy M. Sutherland
  1965 – 1966: Ailsa Garland
  1967 – 1969: Edith Teague
  1970 – 1978: Kathleen Jones
  1978 – 1988: Laurie Purden
  1989 – 1997: Deirdre Vine
  1998: Marcelle d'Argy Smith
  1999 – 2002: Elsa McAlonan

Formats

large slick

Frequency

monthly

Related Sites

Wikipedia

Mentioned in: The Age of the Storytellers



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Woman's Life

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1174

Issue 1-7 and 9 are unnumbered.

Incorporated into: Woman's Own

Issues & Index Sources: 14-Dec-1895 – 22-Sep-1934

Publishers: George Newnes
Frequency: Weekly

Woman's Magazine (UK)

Country: UK

Merged with The Girls' Own Paper, as The Girl's Own Paper and Woman's Magazine, 1908 - 1931; demerged, 1931.

Issues & Index Sources

1880? – 1908

#merges with Girl's Own Paper

Apr-1931 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

The Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, London EC, later Lutterworth Press (The United Society for Christian Literature), 4 Bouverie St, London EC4

Editors

? – 1931: Flora Klickmann
1931 – ?: May Marshall

Woman's Magazine and Girls' Own Paper

see under Girl's Own Paper

The Woman's Magazine (US, 1899)

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources: 1899 – 1910: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers: Mail Order Publishing Co., St. Louis, Mo.

The Woman's Magazine (US, 1912)

see under New Idea Woman's Magazine

Woman's Mirror

Country: UK

"Fiction: serial stories should have a flavour of realism... not more than six parts of 6000 words each; no escapist love stories, but honest romance welcome and occasional mystery; one short story per week (3000 words)".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s

Publishers:   Fleetway Publications Ltd, Fleetway House, Farringdon St., London EC4
Editors:   Jodi Hyland (in 1962); Joy Scully (in 1964)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's Outlook

Country: UK

"Sentimental or family life short stories... about 2500 words".

Issues & Index Sources: 1919 – ?

Publishers:   Co-operative Press Ltd, 418 Chester Rd., Manchester, Manchester 16
Editors:   Doreen Browne (in 1962)
Frequency:   monthly

Woman's Own

Country: UK

Published "What to Tell Santos" by Molly Brown (21-May-1990)

Issues & Index Sources

? – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Website: www.womansown.co.uk

Publishers

Pearson, later Newnes, later IPC

Editors

  in 1962: George A. Rogers
  in 1997: Keith McNeill
  1998 – 2001: Terry Tavner
  Jan-2002 – present: Elsa McAlonan

Formats

tabloid

Prices

3d (in 1945)

Frequency

weekly

Woman's Pictorial

Country: UK

Authors include F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Issues & Index Sources: 1919 – 1956:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Editors:   Harold W. Snoad
Formats:   8.75" x 11.5"
Prices:   4½d (in 1954)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's Realm

Country: UK

Published romance and crime short stories and serials including work by Antonia Fraser, Celia Fremlin, Paula Gosling.

Issues & Index Sources: 22-Feb-1958 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   IPC
Editors:   currently Kathy Watson
Formats:   tabloid slick
Frequency:   weekly

The Woman's Record

Country: US

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

Publishers:   The Woman's Record, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Frequency:   monthly

Woman's Sphere

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Frequency: monthly

Woman's Story Magazine

see under My Story Magazine