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Goodform: A Magazine for the People

As "Goodform: An Illustrated Magazine for the People" inside cover.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1890s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   The Goodform Company; Chicago, IL
Editors:   Mather Dean Kimball
Frequency:   monthly

Good Housekeeping (US)

Women's domestic magazine which has published much high-quality fiction. Authors include Ellen Glasgow, Gertrude Atherton, William Sansom, J. D. Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Daphne du Maurier ("The Birds," Oct-1952), Jack Finney, Herman Wouk.

Address in 1998 was 959 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-May-1885 – present: Short Story Index (incomplete)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  1885 – 1898: George W. Bryan
  1898 – 1911: various
  1911 – ?: William Randolph Hearst

Website

  www.goodhousekeeping.com

Editors

  in 1944: Thornton Burgess
  in 1950s: Herbert R. Mayes
  1958 – ?: Wade Nichols
  in 1998: Arleen L. Quarfoot [fiction editor]

Formats

  standard; became a big slick under Hearst

Frequency

  monthly

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Good Housekeeping (UK)

Total Issues: 1024 (to Jun-2007)

Circulation currently 490,000.

Issues & Index Sources

  Mar-1922 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  National Magazine Co., London

Editors

  1922 – 1924: J.Y. McPeake
  1924 – 1939: Alice Maud Head
  1940 – 1967: Oliver Robinson
  1967 – 1972: Laurie Purden
  1973 – 1986: Charlotte Lessing
  1987 – 1991: No^e"lle Walsh
  1992 – 1995: Sally O'Sullivan
  1996 – 1998: Pat Roberts Cairns
  1999 – present: Lindsay Nicholson

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory

Good Literature
Issues & Index Sources:  in 1900s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   F. M. Lupton
Formats:   11" x 16"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   16pp

Good News

Total Issues: 373+33+28=434

Good News presented stories by the very best of the authors of juvenile stories, such as Oliver Optic, Horatio Alger, Jr., Gilbert Patten, and also the earliest Stratemeyer 'Tom Swift' story.

ALl the uncompleted serials in Good News were continued in Army and Navy Weekly, which concentrated more on military-cadet school stories. These continued in the next series but was broadened to more adventure stories. Authors include Horatio Alger, Edward S. Ellis, William Murray Graydon, Matthew White, Jr.

Issues & Index Sources

  15-May-1890 – 26-Jun-1897: Bibliographic Listing: Good News
  19-Jun-1897 – 29-Jan-1898, as Army and Navy Weekly: Bibliographic Listing: Good News
  5-Feb-1898 – 13-Aug-1898, as The Half-Holiday: Bibliographic Listing: Good News

Publishers

  Howard, Ainslee (Street & Smith), NY

Editors

  15-May-1890 – 26-Jun-1897: Edward Stratemeyer & Arthur Dudley (as W.B. Lawson)
  19-Jun-1897 – 13-Aug-1898: Arthur Sewall (Henry Harrison Lewis)

Formats

  15-May-1890 – 26-Jun-1897: tabloid
  19-Jun-1897 – 13-Aug-1898: small quarto

Prices

  5c

Pagecounts

  15-May-1890 – 26-Jun-1897: 16pp
  19-Jun-1897 – 13-Aug-1898: 48pp

Frequency

  weekly
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Good Stories

Listed in Worldcat as a "retitling" of Hearth and Home.

Issues & Index Sources:  188? – 193?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Vickery & Hill, Augusta, Maine
Formats:   10.5" x 13"
Prices:   25c per year
Pagecounts:   20pp - 32pp
Frequency:   monthly

Good Things for the Young of All Ages

Children's monthly, a successor to Good Words. Serialized Macdonald's "The Princess and the Curdie" (Jan-1877 - Jun-1877); various title changes but generally entitled Good Things.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1872? – Jun-1877?

Publishers

  1872 – 1874: Henry S. King
  1874 – 1877: Alexander Strahan

Editors

  1872 – 1873: George Macdonald

Frequency

  monthly

Good Times

Subtitled "the magazine of pleasure".

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Piccadilly Books Co
Editors:   Samuel Roth
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   monthly
 

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

  6d

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

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