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Magazine Issues

London

Total Issues: 114

Contributors included Robert Louis Stevenson ("New Arabian Nights").

Issues & Index Sources: 3-Feb-1877 – 5-Apr-1879

Editors: W. E. Henley
Frequency: weekly

London and Westminster Review

Issues & Index Sources: 1836 – 1840:

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 3

Sources: BritLit2

The London Aphrodite

Total Issues: 6

Published stories by Lindsay himself, his father Norman Lindsay and brother Philip Lindsay; also Karel Capek and Liam O'Flaherty.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1928 – Jul-1929:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Publishers:   The Fanfrolico Press, London
Editors:   Jack Lindsay and P.R. Stephensen
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   BritLit4

London Bells

Total Issues: 20

family journal

Issues & Index Sources: 9-Nov-1872 – 22-Mar-1873

Publishers: Henry Pearce
Frequency: weekly

London Calling

The journal of the European Service of the BBC. Usually ran a radio-related story or two per issue.

Issues & Index Sources

24-Sep-1939 – present?

Publishers

BBC, London

Editors

in 1941: T.F. Henn
in 1949: E.A. Mackenzie-Bell

Formats

small tabloid (in digest form)

Frequency

weekly

London Evening News

Newspaper which, for many years, published a short story in every issue.

Issues & Index Sources: 1881 – 1980:

Index to The London Evening News

Frequency: daily

London Forum

Total Issues: 4?

Articles on art, literature, current affairs, plus one story per issue. Note: the title was also used by a one-off issue magazine of comment in Jul-1931; also The Occult Review was retitled The London Forum from Sep-1933 - Oct-1935. Neither title carried fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1946 – Christmas 1947

Publishers:   The Falcon Press, Crown Passage, Pall Mall, London SW1
Editors:   Charlton Warwick
Prices:   2/-
Frequency:   quarterly

The London Herald

Issues & Index Sources: 1861 – 1863

Editors: Percy B. St. John

The London Journal

Published melodramatic "working-class" fiction, often gothic historicals. Circulation reached 500,000. Most popular author was Pierce Egan, Jr., others include J.F. Smith, Mary Braddon, G.W.M. Reynolds ("Faust" 1845/1846). Merges with Spare Moments.

Issues & Index Sources

1-Mar-1845 – 29-Apr-1906

5-May-1906 – 8-May-1909, as New London Journal

15-May-1909 – 27-Jan-1912, as London Journal

Publishers

George Vickers

Editors

  1845 – 1846: G.W.M. Reynolds
  1846 – ?: J.W. Ross
  ?: Pierce Egan
  1858 – 1859: Mark Lemon

Formats

story paper (large tabloid)

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

London Library [1868]

Issues & Index Sources: 1868 – ?

Publishers: Penny Miscellany Office; J & R Maxwell (by #34)
Frequency: monthly

London Library [1910]

Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1910 – Sep-1910

Publishers: Amalgamated Press
Frequency: monthly

London Life

Magazine with occasional fiction interspersed with photographs of classic art & bathing belles, and film stills.

Issues & Index Sources: 193? – 194?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers: New Picture Press
Formats: 5" x 7.2"

The London Magazine [1732]

Full title was The London Magazine; or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1732 – Jun-1785

Frequency: monthly?
Sources: BritLit1

The London Magazine [1820]

Later called itself 'The Journal of Facts'.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1820 – Jun-1829:

Index to Periodical Literature

Publishers:   Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, London
Editors:   John Scott, John Taylor
Formats:   standard, octavo
Frequency:   monthly?
Sources:   BritLit2

The London Magazine [1898]

Total Issues: 24+12+3+345+31=417

Initially 3d (half the price of The Strand). At its peak, around 1906 - 1913, probably the best of the popular fiction magazines. Published rather more adventure/mystery fiction than others. Most popular writers of the day appeared; popular fiction imitation-Strand.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1898 – Jul-1900, as The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine:	Indexes to Fiction #10: The Harmsworth Magazine
	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Aug-1900 – Jul-1901, as The Harmsworth Magazine:	Indexes to Fiction #10: The Harmsworth Magazine
	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Aug-1901 – Oct-1901, as The Harmsworth London Magazine:	Indexes to Fiction #10: The Harmsworth Magazine
	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Nov-1901 – Oct-1930, as The London Magazine:	Indexes to Fiction #10: The Harmsworth Magazine	(IdxHrm to 1915 only)
	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)	(IdxHrm to 1915 only)

Nov-1930 – May-1933, as The New London Magazine:

Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Publishers

Jul-1898 – Jul-1901: Harmsworth Brothers Ltd
Aug-1901 – Aug-1915: Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Jul-1898 – 1902: Cecil Harmsworth
  Sep-1902 – Dec-1905: Charles Sisley
  1905 – 1907: J.A. Hammerton
  1907 – 1909: Eric Clement Scott
  1909 – 1910: Comyns Beaumont
  1910 – 1931: David Whitelaw

Formats

standard

Frequency

monthly (but combined Nov/Dec-1898 and Apr/May-1906 issues)

Sources

AgeStory



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London Magazine [1954]

A literary magazine of review and criticism that also publishes much fiction. Authors include L.P. Hartley, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, William Sansom, Paul Bowles, Frank Tuohy, William Trevor, A.E. Ellis, Caroline Blackwood, Ben Okri. Circulation around 4-5,000.

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1954 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  1954 – 1956: Chatto & Windus
  1957 – 1960: Heinemann
  1961 – 1970: The Windmill Press
  1970: Shenval Press
  1971 – Spring 2001: The London Magazine

Editors

1954 – 1961: John Lehmann
1961 – Spring 2001: Alan Ross

Formats

digest; now pocketbook

Prices

  1954 – 1955: 2/6d
  in 1978: £1.00
  in 1992: £4.75

Pagecounts

  Feb-1954 – Jun-1958: 112pp
  Jul-1958 – 1978: 96pp
  in 1992: 160pp

Frequency

originally monthly; but bimonthly 1971 - 1978; then monthly; now bimonthly

Sources

BritLit4