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Endless Entertainment

Total Issues: 18?

Subtitled "A Series of Original Comic, Terrific, and Legendary Tales", Endless Entertainment was a short lived competitor to John Limbird's successful The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, a lower-class periodical published in imitation of Blackwood's and tended towards the weird and the sensational

Issues & Index Sources: 6-May-1825 – 19-Aug-1825?:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   G. Herbert, 88 Cheapside, London.
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

The English Girls Journal and Ladies' Magazine

Total Issues: 59

The Emmetts were chief contributors. Becomes Our English Girls Journal and Lady's Magazine

Issues & Index Sources

10-Oct-1863 – Nov-1864?

6-Dec-1864 – 2-May-1865?

Publishers

10-Oct-1863 – Nov-1864?: Harrison
6-Dec-1864 – 2-May-1865?: Edwin Bailey / W. Eustace Laurence

Editors

William L. Emmett (?)

The English Illustrated Magazine

Total Issues: 359

Contained many articles on travel and topography, but also copious fiction; in some ways, this was the British publication which pointed the way towards the later Strand Magazine. Authors include Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Stanley J. Weyman, Max Pemberton, etc.

The simultaneous American edition was retitled New Illustrated Magazine from Feb-1897 - Sep-1901.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1883 – Aug-1913:	Index to Periodical Literature	(Poole to 1899 only)
	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)	(Poole to 1899 only)

Publishers

  Oct-1883 – Sep-1892: Macmillan
  Oct-1892 – Sep-1893: Edward Arnold
  Oct-1893 – Sep-1898: Illustrated London News
  Oct-1898 – Sep-1901: William Ingram
  Oct-1901 – Mar-1903: T. Fisher Unwin
  Apr-1903 – Feb-1905: Hutchinson's
  Mar-1905 – Aug-1913: Central Publishing

Editors

  Oct-1883 – Sep-1889: J.W. Comyns Carr
  Oct-1889 – Sep-1893: Clement Kinloch-Cooke
  Oct-1893 – Aug-1899: Clement King Shorter
  Sep-1899 – Sep-1901: Bruce Ingram
  Oct-1901 – Mar-1903: Hannaford Bennett
  Mar-1905 – Aug-1913: Oscar Parker

Formats

standard with profuse woodcut illustrations

Prices

Oct-1883 – Sep-1893: 1/-
Oct-1893 – Aug-1913: 6d

Pagecounts

  Oct-1883 – Sep-1888: 64pp
  Oct-1888 – Mar-1893: 70pp
  Apr-1893 – Sep-1894: 88pp
  Oct-1894 – Sep-1896: 94pp
  Oct-1896 – Aug-1913: 96pp - 112pp

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AgeStory

The English Ladies' Novelette

A single, anonymous, novelette in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1891 – Aug-1892?:

Fictionmags Website

(volume 1 only)

Publishers:   E.J. Brett
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   weekly

English Life

Published "The Mahatma's Story" by May Sinclair (Oct. 1924), "The White Pillars Murder" by G. K. Chesterton (Jan. 1925). Not to be confused with English Life and Language (Jan-1946 - Dec-1947, 24 issues)

Issues & Index Sources: 192? – ?

Frequency: monthly?

The English Magazine

Total Issues: 25

Issues & Index Sources: May-1929 – Jan-1932

Frequency: monthly?

The English Review

Total Issues: 344

A literary review with the emphasis on criticism and analysis, it nevertheless published plenty of fiction, including serials and poetry. The first issue included "The Jolly Corner" Henry James, "A Fisher of Men" John Galsworthy and the start of two serials, "The Raid" Leo Tolstoi and "Tono-Bungay," H.G. Wells. Also published Wells's "The New Machiavelli" (May-1910 - Nov-1910). Other authors include Vernon Lee, Violet Hunt, May Sinclair, Lord Dunsany, Richard Middleton, William Beckford (Episodes of Vathek, 1910), L.A.G. Strong, John Collier, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Algernon Blackwood. Published first work by D.H. Lawrence.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1908 – Jul-1937

#merges with The National Review

Publishers

  Dec-1908 – Jul-1909: Duckworth & Co., London
  Aug-1909 – Nov-1910: Chapman & Hall
  Dec-1910 – Dec-1924: English Review
  Jan-1925 – Jan-1927: Eyre & Spottiswoode
  Feb-1927 – May-1927: W.H. Berry
  Jun-1927 – Dec-1935: Eyre & Spottiswoode
  Jan-1936 – Jul-1937: English Review

Editors

  Dec-1908 – Dec-1909: Ford Madox Ford
  Jan-1910 – May-1923: Austin Harrison
  Jun-1923 – May-1931: Ernest Remnant
  Jun-1931 – Dec-1935: Douglas Jerrold
  Jan-1936 – Jun-1936: Wilfrid Hindle
  Jul-1936 – Jul-1937: Derek Walker-Smith

Formats

standard, pulp paper, unillustrated

Frequency

monthly

Sources

BritLit3

English Story

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: 1941 – 1950

Editors: Woodrow & Susan Wyatt
Frequency: irregular but roughly annually

The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: 1852 – 1881:

Index to Periodical Literature

(1866 - 1879 only)

Publishers: Samuel Beeton
Frequency: monthly

Enid Blyton's Magazine

Total Issues: 170

Issues & Index Sources: 18-Mar-1953 – 9-Sep-1959

Publishers:   Evans Brothers
Pagecounts:   48pp
Frequency:   fortnightly

Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories

Total Issues: 277

Issues & Index Sources

15-Jan-1937 – 5-Jun-1942

#becomes Sunny Stories

Publishers

Newnes

Pagecounts

36pp

Frequency

weekly; fortnightly

Enigmatic Novellas

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1998 – #6, 2000:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Enigma Press; Hatfield, Herts, England
Editors:   Mick Sims & Len Maynard
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £4.00
Pagecounts:   68

Enigmatic Tales

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1998 – Autumn 2000:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Enigma Press, 38 Lockley Crescent, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 0TN
Editors:   Mick Sims & Len Maynard
Email Address:   michael@micksims.force9.co.uk
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £3.00
Pagecounts:   152