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    Home Notes   (about)
    Publisher C. Arthur Pearson. Edited by “Isobel” of Pearson’s Weekly. 32pp weekly publication [6ins by 9.5ins], number of pages fluctuated. Regular features included: Home Notes (editorial chat); Health in the Home; The House Beautiful; Little-Known Wives of Well-Known Men; Fashions From Paris; Mother’s in Council (on care of children); Over The Kitchen Fire; Home Dressmaking; Feminine Fancies (needlecrafts); The Daily Care of the Bedroom; Household Hint; Health and Beauty; Poultry Notes (notes on a ‘profitable branch of home farming’); plus fiction serial part and occasional short story.

    Home Notes [v2, 21 April to 14 July 1894] (6″ x 9½″) []
    • · My Guardian’s Son [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · sl; concluding chapters.
    • · In “The Shades” [Part 1 of 2] · [uncredited] · sl; opening chapters.
    • · A Bunch of Violets · [uncredited] · ss

    Home Notes [v3, 21 July to 13 October 1894] (6″ x 9½″) []
    • · In “The Shades” [Part 2 of 2] · [uncredited] · sl; concluding chapters.
    • · A Fatal Wooing [Part 1 of 2] · [uncredited] · sl; opening chapters.
    • · Proposals 1 and 2 · [uncredited] · ss

    Home Notes [v4, 20 October 1894 to 12 January 1895] (6″ x 9½″) []
    Also publishes the first chapter, as a taster, of a Richard Marsh novel The Strange Wooing of Mary Bowler which was published on 1 Jan 1895 as the fourth novel in the “Pearsons Library”, a series of sixpenny paperback originals.
    • · A Fatal Wooing [Part 2 of 2] · [uncredited] · sl; concluding chapters.
    • · A Tug of War [Part 1 of 3] · Mrs. Hungerford · sl; opening chapters.
    • · A Flat in Durham Mansions · [uncredited] · ss

    Home Notes [v7, 20 July to 12 October 1895] (6″ x 9½″) []
    Also thirteen short stories which are now published as “Supplements to Home Notes” all minor authors except for Winfred Graham and L. B. Walford.
    • · A Lady in Black [Part 2 of 2] · Florence Warden · sl; concluding chapters.
    • · The Mystery of the Dallards [Part 1 of 2] · Joan Barrett · sl; opening chapters.

    Home Notes [v8, 19 October 1895 to 11 January 1896] (6″ x 9½″) []
    Also thirteen short stories mainly by unknown writers, e.g. “H. M. R.”, Jenny Wren, etc. but does include a Winifred Graham.
    • · The Mystery of the Dallards [Part 2 of 2] · Joan Barrett · sl; concluding chapters.
    • · An Idle Word [Part 1 of 2] · Iza Duffus Hardy · sl; opening chapters.
    • · The Bees of Lefty Kemp · Ada Cambridge · ss

    Home Notes [v9, 18 January to 11 April 1896] (6″ x 9½″) []
    Also fifteen short stories.

    Home Notes [October 7, 1949] (C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 3d, 44pp, 6″ x 9½″, cover by ?) []
    Details supplied by Steve Holland.

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