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Our Boys' Paper [1886]

Total Issues: 1

Contained an article by W. G. Grace, the famous cricketer, and the first episode of a serial entitled "My Escape From Dalcoit's" (anonymous) other articles about natural history, cricket, school news (mostly schools in the Taplow/Maidenhead area), jokes and a poets corner.

Issues & Index Sources:  1-Jul-1886
Publishers:   Wilson & Whitworth, Romford, Essex
Editors:   "Floreat"

Our Boys' Wideawake Library

Issues & Index Sources:  1884
Publishers:   Denny

Our Bubble

Total Issues: 123

Issues & Index Sources:  30-Jun-1894 – 11-Jan-1904
Publishers:   Dean & Sons
Frequency:   monthly

Our Children's Magazine

Issues & Index Sources:  1852 – 1868
Publishers:   Ragged Schools
Frequency:   monthly

Our Children's Pulpit

Total Issues: 12

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  1873
Frequency:   monthly

Our Circle. A magazine for young people

Issues & Index Sources:  1907
Publishers:   Cooperative Press
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   monthly

Our Continent

Ran serials (e.g. Rhoda Broughton), and stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joel Chandler Harris, Edward Everett Hale, Sarah Orne Jewett. Ran for first few issues as The Continent Weekly Magazine (e.g. 14-Nov-1883).

Issues & Index Sources:  15-Feb-1882 – 13-Aug-1884: Fictionmags Website (incomplete)
Publishers:   Albion W. Tourgée
Editors:   Albion W. Tourg^e'e
Formats:   small tabloid
Frequency:   weekly

Our Darlings

Also released in monthly parts (25th on month; 3d.); religious paper. Incorporates: Children's Treasury

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1881 – ?
Publishers:   Haughton & Company; Shaw
Prices:   ½d
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly (every Wednesday)

Our English Girls Journal and Lady's Magazine

Total Issues: 19

Issues & Index Sources:  8-May-1865 – 11-Sep-1865
Publishers:   Robert Brent
Editors:   Thomas Emmett
Frequency:   Weekly

Our Girls

Total Issues: 164

Issues & Index Sources

  6-Mar-1915 – 20-Apr-1918

#incorporated into Girls' Friend

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Formats

  tabloid

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

Our Girls (New Series)

Total Issues: 21

Becomes Bow Bells (adult).

Issues & Index Sources:  12-Apr-1919 – 30-Aug-1919
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Formats:   tabloid
Frequency:   weekly

Our Holiday Book

Total Issues: 1

An unnumbered one-off Tales for Little People (qv) special.

Issues & Index Sources:  1929
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Pagecounts:   44pp

Our Home

A women's magazine carrying a few short stories plus articles on needlework, beauty, fashion, etc.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1920s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
Formats:   9.5" by 6.5", saddle stapled.
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   48pp

Our Jabberwock

Total Issues: 27

A high-class paper partly based around the writings of Lewis Carroll's mythical monster from Through the Looking Glass. Covers after the first few issues were by Paul Hardy. Louis Wain had some amusing pictures of cats and articles in the centre pages. Stories were by R.S. Warren-Bell, Dr. Gordon Staples, F. Whishaw, E. Everett Green (who wrote about a Greyfriars, unconnected with the famous boys' school), 'Alice' and 'The White Rabbit'. Features included 'The Rainy Day Club', puzzle pages and letters from readers.

Incorporated into Gentlewoman.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1905 – Oct-1907
Publishers:   Chapman & Hall
Editors:   Brenda Girvin
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly

Our Juniors

Total Issues: 12

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Jan-1899 – 1-Dec-1899

#becomes Brave Lads and True

Publishers

  Protestant Union; Marshall Bros.

Frequency

  monthly

Our Little Dots

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1887 – Dec-1922

#becomes Little Dots

Publishers

  Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, London E.C.

Prices

  1d

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  monthly (25th of month)


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