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Belgravia

Total Issues: 392+14=406

Circulation peaked at 18,000 in 1868; published much of Braddon's early work, also G.A. Sala and Sheridan Le Fanu; C&W took the magazine more upmarket with fiction by Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy and early work by Conan Doyle; under White quality declined.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1866 – Jun-1899:

Indexes to Fiction #14: Belgravia

Publishers

  Nov-1866 – Apr-1876: John Maxwell
  May-1876 – Sep-1889: Chatto & Windus
  Oct-1889 – Mar-1897: F.V. White
  Apr-1897 – Dec-1897?: Biggs & Co.
  Jan-1898? – Oct-1898: May, Wyatt & Co.
  Nov-1898 – Jun-1899: A.F. May

Editors

Nov-1866 – Apr-1876: Mary E. Braddon
May-1876 – Sep-1889: Andrew Chatto

Formats

standard (in imitation of The Cornhill)

Prices

1/-

Frequency

monthly, plus an Annual 1876 - 1889

Sources

BritLit3, AgeStory

Believe It or Not

see under Story Digest Magazine

The Bell

Although this was a review of Irish art, literature, the theatre, music and other crafts its core was fiction, it even called itself "The Magazine of Creative Fiction" for a while. It published works by W.B. Yeats, Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O'Brien, Lord Dunsany, Liam O'Flaherty.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1940 – Dec-1954

Publishers

Cahill & Co., Dublin

Editors

Oct-1940 – Mar-1946: Sean O'Faolain
Apr-1946 – Dec-1954: Peadar O'Donnell

Frequency

monthly (no issues Apr-1948 - Nov-1950)

Sources

BritLit4

Bella

Women's magazine that publishes some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1987 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   H. Bauer Publishing (in 2002)
Website:   www.bauer.co.uk/our-magazines/bella
Editors:   Jackie Highe (in 1998); Jayne Marsden (in 2004)
Prices:   66p (in 2002); 70p (in 2004)
Pagecounts:   58pp (in 2002)
Frequency:   weekly

The Belles of England

Total Issues: 52

Issues & Index Sources: 10-Sep-1871 – 1-Sep-1872

Publishers:   Charles Fox, London
Editors:   George Emmett
Frequency:   weekly

The Bellingham Review

Total Issues: 59 (to Aug-2007)

A nonprofit literary arts magazine that runs poems, stories, essays, reviews, plays and photos. Circulation About 2,500.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1977 – present

Publishers:   Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225 (Signpost Press; in 2002)
Website:   www.ac.wwu.edu/~bhreview/
Editors:   Robin Hemley (in 1996); Brenda Miller (in 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   120pp
Frequency:   quarterly to Spring 1978, then twice yearly (Winter and Summer)
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Bellman

Total Issues: 156

"Remarkable for the brilliance and power of its fiction" (Edward J. O'Brien)

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1906 – Dec-1919

Publishers:   The Bellman, Minneapolis
Editors:   William C. Edgar
Formats:   large format
Frequency:   monthly

Bellowing Ark

Runs poetry, short fiction and serialised novels. Says it features "work in the American Romantic tradition." Does not pay for contributions. Circulation about 800.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1984 – present

Publishers:   P. O. Box 45637, Seattle, WA 98145 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Robert R. Ward (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Beloit Fiction Journal

Founded by novelist Clint McCown; student-edited, but with a national circulation.

Issues & Index Sources: 1984 – present

Publishers:   Box 11, Beloit College, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.beloit.edu/~english/bfj.php
Editors:   Fred Burwell (in 1998)
Frequency:   twice-yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Bentley's Miscellany

Total Issues: 384

Always published fiction, its best years were its first decade -- later issues shifted to literary criticism. Strong on serials: began with "Oliver Twist" (1837 - 1839) and Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard" (1839 - 1840), illus by Cruikshank. Also reprinted Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" (Aug-1840).

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1837 – Dec-1868:	The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 4
	Index to Periodical Literature

#merges with Temple Bar

Publishers

  Jan-1837 – Mar-1861: Richard Bentley
  Apr-1861 – Jun-1868: Chapman & Hall
  Jul-1868 – Dec-1868: Bentley, with other partners

Editors

  Jan-1837 – Feb-1839: Charles Dickens
  Mar-1839 – Dec-1841: William Harrison Ainsworth
  ?: Albert Smith
  ?: Shirley Brooks
  ?: George Bentley (final issues)

Frequency

monthly

Sources

BritLit3

Bentley's Quarterly Review

Issues & Index Sources: 1859 – 1860:	The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 2
	Index to Periodical Literature

Benziger's Magazine

A Catholic magazine started for children but progressively adapted as a wider family magazine. Carried some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1898 – Mar-1900, as Our Boys' and Girls' Own

Apr-1900 – Feb-1921, as Benziger's Magazine

Frequency

monthly

Berkeley Fiction Review

Total Issues: 21 (to Dec-2001)

A journal of contemporary short fiction and flash fiction by emerging and established writers. Has published John Blair, Wayne Harrison, Susan Steinberg. No payment. Circulation about 500.

Issues & Index Sources: 1981 – present

Publishers:   University of California, Berkeley, Student Publications.
Website:   www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bfr/
Editors:   various
Formats:   quarto review
Pagecounts:   180pp
Frequency:   twice yearly

The Bermondsey Book

Total Issues: 26?

Ran mostly working-class London fiction and non-fiction, but also published A. E. Coppard, Liam O'Flaherty.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1923 – Mar/Apr/May-1930

Publishers

Cecil Palmer to Mar-1925, then William Heinemann

Editors

1923 – 1925: anonymous but likely to have been Ethel Gutman
1925 – 1930: anonymous but likely to have been Frederick Heath

Frequency

quarterly

Sources

BritLit4

Best

Women's magazine which publishes some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1987 – ?

Publishers:   London
Editors:   Julie Akhurst (in 1998)
Frequency:   weekly

Best Budget

Total Issues: 12

Incorporated into Larks (comic).

Issues & Index Sources: 15-Mar-1902 – 31-May-1902

Publishers:   Trapps Holmes
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

Best Detective

Total Issues: 1

Seemingly a one-shot pulp by Exclusive Detective Stories (an imprint of Standard Magazines). Not to be confused with the long-running Best Detective Magazine from the 1930s.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1947:	Pulp Magazine Index 1	(Missing: all except Dec-1947)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: all except Dec-1947)

Publishers:   Exclusive Detective Stories (imprint of Standard Magazines)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   132pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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