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Atalanta

Total Issues: 132

Notable children's magazine; authors included Mrs Molesworth, Robert Louis Stevenson.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1887 – Sep-1898: Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  1887 – 1890: Hatchards
  1890 – 1892: Trischler & Co.
  1892 – 1898: Marshall Bros., London

Editors

  1887 – 1892: L. T. Meade, with various co-eds
  1892 – 1896: A.B. Symington
  1896 – 1898: Edwin Oliver

Formats

  standard

Prices

  6d

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory

The Athenaeum

One of the most widely circulated and influential weekly literary reviews of the Victorian era, it set the standard for nonpartisan, professional criticism of literature (both English and foreign), art, music, drama, and science.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1828 – Feb-1921: Index to Periodical Literature (1882 - 1906 only)

#merges with The Nation

Editors

  Jan-1828 – May-1830: James Silk Buckingham
  Jun-1830 – 1846: Charles Wentworth Dilke
  1846 – 1853: T.K. Hervey
  1853 – 1869: Hepworth Dixon
  1869 – 1871: John Doran
  1871 – 1900: Norman MacColl

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  BritLit2

The Athenian Mercury

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1691 – 1697
Publishers:   John Dunton

Athlete

Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1939 – Apr-1940: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt
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Athletes Story Book

Total Issues: 15

Incorporated into Great Fights (adult magazine).

Issues & Index Sources:  19-Oct-1909 – 25-Jan-1910
Publishers:   Health & Strength
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   weekly

At Home and Abroad [1870]

Total Issues: 44

Issues & Index Sources:  23-Feb-1870 – 21-Dec-1870
Publishers:   H. Lea
Frequency:   weekly

At Home and Abroad [1879]

see under The Wesleyan Juvenile Offering

Atkinson's Casket

see under Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine

Atlan

see under Perry Rhodan

Atlanta Review

Emphasis is on poetry but also publishes short fiction and interviews with an international perspective. Does not pay for contributions. Circulation about 6,000 copies.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1994 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Daniel Veach, P.O. Box 8248, Atlanta, GA 31106 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.atlantareview.com/
Editors:   Daniel Veach (in 2000 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002); DirLit99

The Atlantic Monthly

Total Issues: 1707 (to 1-2000)

Although initially it relied heavily on New England, under Howell the magazine broadened its appeal. Circulation 100,000 in 1921 and about 260,000 in 1961. Authors include Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Booker T. Washington, Edward Everett Hale. Still a strong magazine of review and comment in 1999, publishing about one short story per issue; absorbed Galaxy in Feb 1878; twice retitled itself The Atlantic (Jul-1932 - Jun-1971; Apr-1981 - Oct-1993)

From 2005 stopped publishing fiction in each issue in favour of an annual all-fiction issue (in August).

Address in 1998 - 2002 was 77 N. Washington Street, Boston, MA 02114.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1857 – present: Index to Periodical Literature (Poole to 1906 only; Hannigan Jan-1900 - Dec-1914 only)
The Standard Index of Short Stories

Publishers

  Nov-1857 – Oct-1859: Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston
  1859 – 1874: Ticknor & Fields, and successors, Boston
  1874 – 1908: H.O. Houghton
  Aug-1908 – present: Atlantic Monthly

Website

  www.theatlantic.com

Editors

  Nov-1857 – Jun-1861: James Russell Lowell
  Jul-1861 – Jul-1871: James T. Fields
  Aug-1871 – Jan-1881: W. Dean Howells
  Feb-1881 – Mar-1890: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  Apr-1890 – Jul-1898: Horace E. Scudder
  Aug-1898 – Jul-1899: Walter Hines Page
  Aug-1899 – Jul-1909: Bliss Perry
  Aug-1909 – Jun-1938: Ellery Sedgwick
  Jul-1938 – 1966: Edward Weeks
  present: C. Michael Curtis

Formats

  standard, moving to large slick format in Jul-1942

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)
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Atlantis

Issues & Index Sources

  1858 – 1863: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 3
  1870: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 3

Atom Mind

Focus on the original voices in modern US literature - Kerouac, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemingway. Runs poetry, short fiction and essays. Has published Charles Plymell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski. Circulation about 1,000.

Issues & Index Sources

  1968 – 1970
  1993 – present

Publishers

  Mother Road Publications, Albuquerque, NM

Editors

  Gregory Smith

Formats

  review

Frequency

  quarterly

Atopos

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring/Summer 1991: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Atopos, Wausau, WI.

Attic Revivals

Total Issues: 5

Reprint series that featured ocasional articles.

Issues & Index Sources:  1979 – 1983: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Attic Revivals Press, 24 Gilmore Ave, Great Barrington, MA 01230
Editors:   Bernard Drew
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The Auckland Weekly News. Town and Country Journal

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1900s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Wilson & Horton, Auckland, NZ
Formats:   Broadsheet (47cms x 32cms)

Audience

A (mostly) slick-paper little which, like Red Clay Reader, is a bedsheet bound in boards, yet very much a magazine and issued bimonthly in this period.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan/Feb-1971? – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Hill Publishing Co., Boston, MA
Editors:   Tim Hill
Formats:   Bedsheet bound in boards
Prices:   $4.95
Pagecounts:   112pp

Auguries

Total Issues: 18

Small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1983 – #18, 1993: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  1983: South Hants SF Group
  1985 – 1993: Nik Morton; Fareham, Hants

Editors

  Nik Morton

Formats

  octavo
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Aunt Judy's Magazine

Total Issues: 238

A children's magazine founded by the mother of Juliana H. Ewing, it published much of Ewing's fiction as well as stories by Lewis Carroll and F. Anstey.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1866 – Oct-1885

Publishers

  Bell & Daldy

Editors

  1866 – 1873: Mrs Alfred Gatty
  1873 – 1885: Mrs Horatia Eden, her daughter

Frequency

  monthly


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