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Lilliput

Total Issues: 276

One of the most popular magazines of the 1940s with a circulation of around 200,000 (dropping to 75,000 in the 1950s). Photography and personal anecdotes featured highly, but fiction was a key part. Authors include V.S. Pritchett, Wyndham Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, Lord Dunsany, L.A.G. Strong, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Georges Simenon, Doris Lessing, Maurice Richardson, John Wyndham, John Christopher.

Lilliput is available at Manchester Public Library in bound editions (some issues missing), etc.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1937 – Jul-1960:

Fictionmags Website

#merges with Men Only

Publishers

  Jul-1937 – Apr-1941: Pocket Publications, Lincoln's Inn Chambers, 40-43 Chancery Lane, London, WC2
  May-1941 – Jan-1960: Hulton Press
  Feb-1960 – Jul-1960: Longacre Press

Editors

  1937 – 1940: Stefan Lorant
  1940 – 1947: Tom Hopkinson
  1947 – 1950: Richard Bennett
  1951 – Sep-1955: Jack Hargreaves
  Oct-1955? – Dec-1959: William Richardson
  Jan-1960 – Jul-1960: Denis Pitts

Formats

Jul-1937 – Feb/Mar-1954: digest
Apr-1954 – Jul-1960: octavo full-flat size

Prices

  Jul-1937 – Dec-1939: 6d
  Jan-1940 – Jun-1940: 7d
  Jul-1940 – Dec-1940: 8d
  Jan-1941 – Apr-1941: 9d
  May-1941 – Nov-1950: 1/-
  Dec-1950 – May/Jun-1951: 1/3d
  Jun/Jul-1951 – Dec-1951: 1/6d
  Jan-1952 – Jul-1960: 2/-

Pagecounts

  Jul-1937 – Dec-1940: 128pp
  Jan-1941 – Apr-1942: 112pp
  May-1942 – Dec-1946: 104pp
  Jan-1947 – Nov-1948: 120pp
  Dec-1948 – Dec-1949: 132pp
  Jan-1950 – Feb/Mar-1954: 96pp - 136pp
  Apr-1954 – Dec-1955: 88pp
  Jan-1956 – Dec-1959: 80pp
  Jan-1960 – Jul-1960: 72pp

Frequency

monthly

Sources

BritLit4



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Lilliputian Magazine

Full title was "Lilliputian Magazine; or, The Young Gentleman & Lady's Golden Library".

Issues & Index Sources: 1751 – 1752

Publishers:   T. Carnan, St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Editors:   John Newbury
Prices:   3d

Line-up Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Line-up Detective Crime

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Lion Adventures

Sleaze, featuring pin-ups and occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s

Lion Library

Total Issues: 28

Published detective and adventure stories; possibly started monthly , but was advertised (in Lot-o-Fun for November 27, 1909) with four numbers that month. The Maxwell Kean adventures are reprints of American dime novels featuring Nick Carter.

Issues & Index Sources

27-Apr-1909 – Nov-1909:

Story Paper Index

(incomplete)

#incorporated into Nugget Library (UK)

Publishers

James Henderson

Frequency

Varied

Lippincott's Magazine

High-quality fiction, one of the first to adopt the "complete novel" approach. Authors include Gertrude Atherton, Stephen Crane, Rebecca Harding Davis, Bret Harte, Julian Hawthorne, Lafcadio Hearn, Henry James, Frank R. Stockton. Also first publication of Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Kipling's "The Light That Failed" and Doyle's "The Sign of the Four."

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1868 – Dec-1899:	Index to Periodical Literature	(FicMags sample issues only)
	Fictionmags Website	(FicMags sample issues only)

Jan-1900 – Aug-1915:

The Standard Index of Short Stories

(Jan-1900 - Dec-1914 only)

Sep-1915 – Apr-1916, as McBride's Magazine

#merges with Scribner's Magazine

Publishers

1868 – 1914: Lippincott, Philadelphia
1914 – 1916: McBride, Nast, New York

Editors

  1868 – 1884: John Foster Kirk
  1885: J. Bird
  1885 – 1889: William S. Walsh
  1889 – 1896: Henry Studdart
  1898: Frederic M. Bird
  1898 – 1905: Harrison S. Morris
  1905 – 1914: J. Berg Esenwein
  1914: Louise Bull
  1914 – 1916: Edward Frank Allen

Formats

standard

Frequency

monthly

The Listener

Frequently ran a story or two per issue, either a transcript of a story broadcast on radio or a new one by a featured author related to a radio broadcast.

Issues & Index Sources

16-Jan-1929 – 198?

Publishers

BBC, London

Editors

1934: R.S. Lambert
1948: A.E.W. Thomas

Formats

tabloid

Literal Latté

Distributed free in art centres and bookstores in NY. Circulation estimated at 25,000.

Issues & Index Sources: 1994 – present

Publishers:   Literal Latte, Suite 240, 61 East 8th Street, New York, NY 10003 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.literal-latte.com
Editors:   Jenine Gordon Bockman & Jeff Bockman (in 1998 - 2002)
Email Address:   litlatte@aol.com
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Literary Album

Total Issues: 225

Issues & Index Sources: 23-Dec-1865 – 9-Apr-1870:

Bibliographic Listing: Literary Album

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   15½" x 11"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

Literary Cavalcade

"Features contemporary and modern classic literature: dramatic scripts, stories, essays, poetry and writing lessons for high-school students, grades 9-12."

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1948 – May-2005

Publishers: Scholastic
Frequency: monthly (during term time)

The Literary Digest

Issues & Index Sources

1890 – 1938

#merges with Time

Publishers

Funk & Wagnalls

Frequency

weekly

The Literary Gazette

Mostly non-fiction. Calls itself 'Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc.' as per Drabble;Oxf; BL states 1823-1874

Issues & Index Sources: 1817 – 1862

Publishers:   Henry Colburn
Editors:   William Jerdan, S. Phillips, L. Reeve, J.M. Jephson
Sources:   BritLit2

The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror

Fanzine. See also Toadstool Wine and Fantasy and Terror, the latter a quasi-revival.

Issues & Index Sources: 1973 – 1975:

Miller/Contento



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The Literary Post

Total Issues: 20

Ran one or two stories per issue though mostly a literary miscellany.

Issues & Index Sources: 15-Mar-1910 – Sep-1910

Publishers:   Eveleigh Nash, London
Editors:   Eveleigh Nash (assisted by Maude ffoulkes)
Formats:   tabloid
Frequency:   weekly (last issue monthly)

The Literary Review (US)

Brings together new works and literary translations from around the world. Circulation 2,000.

Issues & Index Sources: Autumn 1957 – present:

Short Story Index

(Missing: all before 1974 at least)

Publishers:   Farleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.theliteraryreview.org
Editors:   Walter Cummins (in 1998 - 2002)
Email Address:   tlr@fdu.edu
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)