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Life [1881]

The Christmas number for 1881 was advertised as "containing a series of tales, stories, poems and sketches by eminent authors, including Coals of Fire, by D. Christie Murray".

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1881

Life [1883]

Humorous magazine noted for its art by Gibson; authors include John Kendrick Bangs, Brander Matthews, Robert Benchley. The title bought by Henry Luce in 1936: his Life was a different type of magazine (see separate entry below).

Issues & Index Sources

4-Jan-1883 – Oct-1936

Publishers

John Ames Mitchell; Charles Dana Gibson

Editors

  1883 – 1892: Edward Sanford Martin
  1892 – ?: Thomas L. Masson
  1924 – 1928: Robert E. Sherwood

Frequency

1883 – 1931: weekly
1931 – 1936: monthly

Life [1936]

Although almost wholly non-fiction (like other Luce publications, such as the news-weekly, Time), the heavily-pictorial Life has been known to publish occasional pieces of fiction, including "The Silence of the Sea" by Vercors (1943), "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway (1952), "The Bridges of Toko-ri" by James Michener (1953) and "The Kilimanjaro Machine" by Ray Bradbury (22-Jan-1965).

Issues & Index Sources

23-Nov-1936 – 1972

1978 – ?

Publishers

Time, Inc. (Henry Luce)

Formats

big slick

Frequency

weekly

Life and Adventure Library

Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources: 1890 – 1893

Publishers: Aldine Publishing Co.

Life and Letters

Total Issues: 154

A literary review which published one or two stories each issue, often experimental. Authors include Enid Bagnold, Nugent Barker, Lord Dunsany, D.H. Lawrence, Sean O'Casey.

Note: Life & Letters became the sponge that absorbed other literary/ critical magazines: To-Day in 1935, The London Mercury and Bookman in May-1939.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1928 – Apr-1935:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Sep-1935 – Jun-1945, as Life and Letters Today:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Jul-1945 – Jan-1946, as Life and Letters and the London Mercury and Bookman:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Feb-1946 – Jun-1950, as Life and Letters:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Publishers

1928 – 1934: The Statesman Publishing Co.
1935 – 1950: Constable

Editors

  1928 – 1934: Desmond McCarthy
  1934: Hamish Miles
  1934 – 1935: R. Ellis Roberts
  1935 – 1950: Robert Herring

Frequency

monthly (but mostly quarterly, 1932 - 1938)

Sources

BritLit4

The Life of Gene Tunney

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1927

Publishers:   Dell
Formats:   pulp
Sources:   UltGuide

Life's Romances

Total Issues: 3?

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1941 – 1946?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Bell Syndicate
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Life Story Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Country Press
Editors:   Geraldine Rhoads
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   25c
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

The Lightbearer Twopenny Stories

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: 1933

Publishers: John Ritchie, Kilmarnock
Pagecounts: 32pp

Lighthouse Magazine

Total Issues: 7 (to Aug-2007)

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-2003 – present:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: any after #6)

Publishers:   Lighthouse Magazine, P.O. Box 106, Jarrow, NE32 3WZ
Editors:   Paul Calvin Wilson
Formats:   A4
Prices:   £5.00
Pagecounts:   50pp



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Lights Up

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers: St Paul, Minnesota
Editors: Frances Mazo (in 1940)

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