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Magazine Issues

Family Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 9

"The Great International Weekly Story Paper, combining the Newest and Best in Literature, Science and Art".

Issues & Index Sources: 6-Feb-1886 – 3-Apr-1886:

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   E.C. Hancock, 1216 F St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Formats:   9½ x 13"
Prices:   2c
Pagecounts:   16
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Family Fiction {Magazine}

Country: UK
Total Issues: 5?

Subtitled "stories for the family, for all moods, all ages and all tastes."

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1946 – Jun/Jul-1947, as Family Fiction Magazine:

FictionMags Index

Aug/Sep-1947 – Nov/Dec-1947?, as Family Fiction:

FictionMags Index

Publishers

Dec-1946 – Jun/Jul-1947: Acorn Features, Chantry Close, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex
Aug/Sep-1947 – Nov/Dec-1947?: Horbron Features, 149 Somerset St., Abertillery, Mons.

Editors

Major H.R. Phillips

Formats

pocketbook

Prices

Frequency

bimonthly

The Family Friend

Country: UK

Religious magazine that typically had a serial segment each month and the occasional short story. Advertised as "the biggest and brightest pennyworth for the Home Circle".

Issues & Index Sources

1849 – 1852

1852 – 1855

1855 – 1861

1862 – 1865

1866 – 1867

1870 – 1921:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

S.W. Partridge & Co., 8 & 9 Paternoster Row, London E.C.

Editors

Robert K. Philp (initially); J.A. Hammerton (in 1904)

Formats

10" x 7"

Prices

Pagecounts

c. 24pp

Frequency

monthly

The Family Herald

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4616?

The first English story paper, which featured several story supplements. See separate entry on Complete Story-Teller. Waite noted the first issue appeared in 1844, whilst Reed gives May-1843 as the first issue. Circulation was apparently 240,000 a week in 1855.

Issues & Index Sources: 17-Dec-1842 – Jul-1940

Publishers:   William Stevens
Formats:   folio at outset
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly; monthly from Feb-1929

Family Herald and Weekly Star

Country: Canada

Subtitled "Canada's National Farm Magazine", only about half-the publication was devoted to farming. In addition you had stories, Jeffery Farnol makes an appearance here, articles for women and for children, general interest items plus jokes and cartoons.

Issues & Index Sources: 1870 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Montreal Star Company
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   56pp
Frequency:   weekly

Family Herald Supplement

Country: UK

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

Formats:   digest
Prices:   2d

The Family Journal

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1673

Issues & Index Sources

8-May-1909 – 31-May-1941:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

#merges with The Home Companion (UK)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Frequency

Weekly

Family Journal (Canada)

Country: Canada

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Prices: 25c

Family Journal Monthy (US)

Country: US

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

Frequency: monthly

Family Library

Country: US

Weekly story paper also published in monthly parts.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1900s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Family Library Company, New York

The Family Magazine Section

see under The National Sunday Magazine

The Family Pictorial

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  20-Sep-1919 – ?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Family Reader

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2400+

Issues & Index Sources

1870

1871 – 27-Mar-1920

Frequency

weekly

The Family [1910s]

Country: US

Subtitled "a monthly magazine for the home".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1910s

Publishers:   The Family Publishing Co., 540 La Salle Avenue, Chicago, IL
Prices:   25c per year
Frequency:   monthly

Family Star

Country: UK

Story paper, mentioned by Orwell in 1940; "serials of 30,000 to 50,000 words with strong emotional and dramatic interest... shorts, 1000 to 3000 words with good romantic interest".

Issues & Index Sources: 1934 – 1977:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, Courier Place, Dundee
Frequency: weekly

Family Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 129

Sub-titled 'the best complete story paper for the home'. Becomes: Weekly Friend and Family Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 23-Apr-1910 – 5-Oct-1912

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Formats:   digest (octavo)
Frequency:   weekly

Family Story Paper (US) [1873]

Country: US
Total Issues: 2498

Story paper. Ran the "Old Cap Collier" stories from 1878; authors include Harry Enton, W.I. James, Emma Garrison Jones; circulation peaked at around 300,000.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1873 – 5-Aug-1905, as The New York Family Story Paper

12-Aug-1905 – 8-Oct-1921, as Family Story Paper:	FictionMags Index	(sample issue only)
	Dime Novel Bibliography	(sample issue only)

Publishers

Norman Munro

Editors

J.R. Abarbanell

Formats

tabloid

Frequency

weekly

Related Sites

American Women's Dime Novel Project

Mentioned in: Dime Novel Bibliography