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The Family Favourite

Total Issues: 58

Incorporated into: Home Companion

Issues & Index Sources:  20-Feb-1915 – 18-Mar-1916
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press

Family Fiction {Magazine}

Total Issues: 5?

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

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1946 – Nov/Dec-1947?: Fictionmags Website

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

  9d

Frequency

  bi-monthly

The Family Friend

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 Website (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

  1d

Pagecounts

  c. 24pp

Frequency

  monthly

The Family Herald

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

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 Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Montreal Star Company
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   56pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Family Journal

Total Issues: 1673

Issues & Index Sources

  8-May-1909 – 31-May-1941: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

#merges with The Home Companion

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Frequency

  Weekly

Family Journal (Canada)
Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Prices:   25c

Family Journal Monthy (US)
Issues & Index Sources:  ? – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Frequency:   monthly

The Family Reader

Total Issues: 2400+

Issues & Index Sources

  1870
  1871 – 27-Mar-1920

Frequency

  weekly

Family Star

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 Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, Courier Place, Dundee
Frequency:   weekly

Family Stories

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 [1873]

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 Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Norman Munro

Editors

  J.R. Abarbanell

Formats

  tabloid

Frequency

  weekly

The Family Story Paper [1875]

 see also under The Story Paper

The Family Story Paper [1888]

 see also under The Daisy

Famous American Science Fiction

 see under American Science Fiction (Magazine)

Famous Crime Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Duchess Printing & Publishing Co.

Famous Crimes

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s

Famous Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1934 – ?
Publishers:   Macfadden Publishing, Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, NJ
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

Famous Detective Stories

 see under Crack Detective (and Mystery) (Stories)

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