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Good Words

Total Issues: 556

Purportedly the most popular fiction magazine of the mid-Victorian period, until The Strand, with a circulation of around 160,000 in mid-1860s and up to 130,000 in the 1870s. Stories were strongly pious and moralistic, intended as improving the mind and soul. Authors include Anthony Trollope, Dinah Mulock, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hardy ("The Trumpet Major," 1880), George Macdonald, J.M. Barrie, Mrs Oliphant, John Buchan. Christmas editions entitled Good Cheer. Started out as an 8-page 1d unillustrated religious magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1860 – Apr-1906:

Index to Periodical Literature

#merges with The Sunday Magazine

Publishers

  1860 – 1904: Alexander Strahan
  Jan-1905 – Oct-1905: Pitman's
  Nov-1905 – Apr-1906: Amalgamated Press

Editors

1860 – Jun-1872: Norman Macleod
Jul-1872 – Apr-1906: Donald Macleod

Formats

large format, illustrated

Prices

Pagecounts

70pp

Frequency

1860: weekly
1861 – 1911: monthly

Sources

BritLit3, AgeStory

Good Words for the Young

Total Issues: 49

A children's companion to Good Words. Serialized Macdonald's "At the Back of the North Wind" (Nov-1868 - Oct-1870). Was not a financial success and was sold to Henry S. King who relaunched it as Good Things for the Young.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1868 – Nov-1872

Publishers

Alexander Strahan

Editors

1868 – 1869: Norman Macleod
1869 – 1872: George Macdonald

Frequency

monthly

The Goose Girl Magazine

The Journal of the College of the Rhine Army, filled with contributions from students and staff at the College of the Rhine Army, both past and present.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1945 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Gottingen

The Gorgon

Total Issues: 11

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: v1 #1, 1947 – v2 #4, 1948:

Miller/Contento

Gossip and Piccadilly

Publications (weeklies?) mentioned by Sutherland (Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction) as having been edited by William Le Queux, late 1880s-early 1890s?.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1890

Gothic

Total Issues: 4

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1979 – Dec-1980:

Miller/Contento

Gothic Romances

Total Issues: 6

Most stories were reprints.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1970 – Mar-1971:

Miller/Contento

May-1971 – Sep-1971, as Gothic Stories:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Dell Publishing

Editors

Barbara Schrank

Formats

large format

Prices

50c

Pagecounts

72pp

Frequency

bi-monthly

Gothic Secrets

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1971 – Oct-1971:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Stanley Publications, N.Y.
Editors:   Alfred Bercovici
Formats:   large format
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   72pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly

Gothic Stories

see under Gothic Romances

Gothic Tales Of Love

"3 Gripping Book-Length Thrillers By Best-Selling Writers."

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1975:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

GP Detective Stories

Total Issues: 3 (at least)

Issues & Index Sources: early 1950s:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Little Publications, Sydney
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   64pp
Sources:   AustCmFc

Issue Checklist

GPU News

One of America's first national gay publications, GPU News was a glossy covered magazine, which featured news, commentary, poetry and fiction written by many if not most of the leading gay and lesbian thinkers of the 1970's.

Issues & Index Sources: 1972 – 1981

Publishers: Gay People's Union, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

GQ

see under Gentlemen's Quarterly

The Grabinski Reader

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 198? – #5, 1990:	Miller/Contento
	Fictionmags Website

Graffiti

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1969 – c. 1977

Publishers: Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina

Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine

Authors include Poe, Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, R.H. Dana, Mrs Emma Embury. Circulation peaked at about 43,000 in 1840s. Published Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (May-1841); started as Atkinson's Casket; bought by Graham in 1839 and merged with Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1826 – Dec-1840, as Atkinson's Casket

Jan-1841 – Dec-1841, as Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine (The Casket and Gentleman's United)

Jan-1842 – Dec-1842, as Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine

Jan-1843 – Jun-1843, as Graham's Magazine of Literature and Art

Jul-1843 – Jun-1844, as Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine:

Fictionmags Website

Jul-1844 – Jun-1855, as Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art

Jul-1855 – Dec-1855, as Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art and Fashion

Jan-1856 – Dec-1858, as Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art and Fashion

Publishers

  Jan-1826 – Apr-1839: Samuel & Charles Alexander
  May-1839 – Jul-1848: George R. Graham, Philadelphia
  Aug-1848 – Mar-1850: Samuel Patterson

Editors

  1826 – 1839: Samuel C. Atkinson
  1839 – 1840: George R. Graham
  1841: George R. Graham, Charles J. Peterson & Edgar Allan Poe
  1842: George R. Graham, Charles J. Peterson, Edgar Allan Poe, Mrs. Emma C. Embury, Mrs. Ann S. Stephens & Rufus W. Griswold (Poe resigned in April and was replaced by Griswold)
  Jan-1843 – Oct-1843: George R. Graham & Rufus W. Griswold
  Nov-1843 – 1847: George R. Graham
  1848 – 1849: George R. Graham, Robert T. Conrad, J.R. Chandler & J.B. Taylor
  1850 – 1857: George R. Graham
  1857 – 1858: Charles Godfrey Leland

Formats

large format, ornately designed

Frequency

monthly

Grain

Total Issues: 108 (to Dec-2002)

Publishes new Canadian and international writing, both prose and poetry. The annual Short Grain contest attracts over 1,500 entries. Circulation 1,300.

Issues & Index Sources: 1973 – present

Publishers:   Box 1154, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4P 3B4 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.grainmagazine.ca
Editors:   Elizabeth Philips, Sean Virgo, Dianne Warren, J. Jill Robinson (in 2002)
Email Address:   grain.mag@sk.sympatico.ca
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Gramercy Review

Issues & Index Sources: 1977? – 1980?

Publishers: Los Angeles