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Magazine Issues

The Home Friend [1904]

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1904? – ?:

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   United Publishing Company, Kansas City, MO
Editors:   John Meagher
Formats:   13 3/8" x 10¼" newsprint
Prices:   35c per year
Frequency:   monthly

The Home Herald

Total Issues: 26

Family paper; there was a later paper of the same name with #476, March 1897.

Issues & Index Sources: 9-May-1877 – 31-Oct-1877

Formats: small tabloid
Frequency: weekly

The Home Journal [1846]

Initially a miscellany of news, verse and gossip, but steadily introduced more fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

14-Feb-1846 – 14-Nov-1946, as The National Press

21-Nov-1946 – ?, as The Home Journal

(retitled Town and Country)

Publishers

1846 – 1867: Nathaniel P. Willis
1925 – ?: Hearst

Editors

  ?: Nathaniel P. Willis
  ?: George Pope Morris
  1925 – ?: Harry Bull
  1949 – ?: Henry B. Sell

Frequency

weekly

The Home Journal [1872]

A family paper of 'news and novels, fancy and criticism'. Waite states it lasted for less than two years; the BL does not list the title for this period.

Issues & Index Sources: 1872 – 1874?

Frequency: weekly?

Home Library of Powerful and Dramatic Tales

Total Issues: 64

Issues & Index Sources: 1886 – 1896

Publishers: Aldine Publishing Co.

The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls

A family paper which ran occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1877 – Dec-1879

Jan-1880 – Oct-1925, as The Home Friend

Nov-1925 – Dec-1931, as The Scottish Girls' Friendly Society Magazine

Jan-1932 – ?, as The Scottish Girl

Frequency

monthly

The Home Magazine [1856]

Total Issues: 490 (approximately)

subtitled 'A Journal of Entertainment and Instruction'

Issues & Index Sources: 1856 – 1866

Home Magazine [1888]

Merged with Madame in 1906 and with Uncle Remus's Magazine in May-1908, but retained own numbering throughout.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1888 – Apr-1908:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers

  1888 – 1904: Brodix Publishing Co., Washington DC
  1904 – 1906: P.V. Collins, Minneapolis
  1906 – 1908: Bobbs-Merrill

Editors

  ?: Mrs John A. Logan
  1896 – 1899: Arthur T. Vance
  1900 – 1904: Francis P. Elliott

Formats

large tabloid

Prices

The Home Magazine [1898]

Total Issues: 146

A churchified offering that ran some short fiction but nothing of interest.

Issues & Index Sources

1898 – 29-Dec-1900

#merges with The Sunday Strand

Publishers

Newnes

Frequency

weekly

The Home Magazine [1918]

see under The Woman at Home

The Home Magazine of Fiction

see under The Lady's Magazine

Home Mirror

Total Issues: 207+133+44=384

See note under Home Chat.

Issues & Index Sources

11-Oct-1919 – 29-Sep-1923

6-Oct-1923 – 17-Apr-1926

24-Apr-1926 – 25-Feb-1927

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

Maud Brown

Formats

large digest booklet, mostly of complete short novels

Frequency

weekly

Home Notes

Ran one serial plus a story or two; most contributors anonymous but known to include Mrs Hungerford; Winifred Graham, Florence Warden, Ada Cambridge.

Issues & Index Sources

18-Jan-1894 – 12-Jun-1958:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

#merges with Woman's Own

Publishers

1894 – ?: C.A. Pearson

Editors

Isobel Thorne

Formats

large review size (6"x9.5")

Prices

Pagecounts

32pp

Frequency

weekly

Homes and Gardens

"Fiction of the highest quality... 2000 - 5000 words" (W&A Ybk 1963), but fiction not mentioned by 1997. Absorbed The Home Magazine, 1931, and The Garden.

Issues & Index Sources

1919 – present

Publishers

Newnes, 2-10 Tavistock St., London WC2, later IPC Magazines

Website

www.ipcmedia.com/magazines/homesgardens/

Editors

  in 1962: Lady Georgina Coleridge
  in 1997: Julia Watson
  in 2004: Deborah Barker

Frequency

monthly

Home Stories

see under Answers Library

Home Stories [1893]

Total Issues: 45+146+390=681

A confusing paper. The British Library (Colindale) index says that it was a free supplement with Good Company but under Good Company it says it was a free supplement with Home Stories during 1896/1897!

Issues & Index Sources

1893 – 1894, as Lazy Land

24-Mar-1894 – 26-Dec-1896, as Good Company

2-Jan-1897 – 10-Oct-1900, as Home Stories

Frequency

weekly

Home Stories [1923]

Total Issues: 167

Technically a continuation of Answers Library (706 issues from Mar-1910 - Dec-1923).

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1923 – May-1925

Jun-1925 – Aug-1925, as Women's Home Stories

Sep-1925 – Feb-1927, as Women's Stories

Publishers

Newnes

Frequency

weekly

Home Sweet Home

Issues & Index Sources: 1893 – 1901

Publishers: Amalgamated Press

Home Weekly

see under Red Rose Novels