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Magazine Issues

The Home Companion (UK) [1897]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3079

Story-paper sister to Home Chat. Incorporates: Family Favourite; Ladies' Home Paper

Issues & Index Sources

16-Feb-1897 – 31-May-1941

7-Jun-1941 – 25-Feb-1956, as Home Companion and Family Journal:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

#merges with Home Chat

Publishers

Harmsworth

Editors

1897 – ?: Leicester Harmsworth
in 1920s: Maud Brown

Frequency

weekly

Home Companion: A Monthly for Young People

see under Woman's Home Companion

Home Companion: A Monthly for Young People

see under Woman's Home Companion

The Home Fiction Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Rebinding of the May 1925 issue of Complete Novel Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1925:

General Fiction Index

Publishers:   Novel Magazine Corporation
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp


Issue Checklist

The Home Friend [1852]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 104?

Regularly ran stories including a series of 'Fireside Tales' by Jane Alice Sargent.

Issues & Index Sources

1852 – 1854

1854 – 1856

(possibly phantom)

Publishers

Christian Knowledge Society

Frequency

weekly

The Home Friend [1880]

see also under The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls

The Home Friend [1904]

Country: US

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

Country: UK
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 (US) [1846]

Country: US

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 (UK) [1872]

Country: UK

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?

The Home Journal (Canada) [1905]

see under Canadian Home Journal

The Home Journal [1935]

Country: UK

"The ideal weekly magazine for women who appreciate the good things of this world in dress, beauty, health, fiction, films and knitting."

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1934? – 1939:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

#merges with Woman's Pictorial

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Frequency

weekly

Home Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1885 – Apr-1886: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Cobb, Baldwin
Formats:   8 x 6"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   64
Frequency:   Monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Home Library of Powerful and Dramatic Tales

Country: UK
Total Issues: 64

Issues & Index Sources: 1886 – 1896

Publishers: Aldine Publishing Co.

Home Library of Select Literature

Country: US
Total Issues: 50

"Each Number Contains a Complete, First-Class Novel by a Celebrated Author."

Issues & Index Sources: in 1890s:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Formats:   11½ x 8¼"
Pagecounts:   16pp
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Home Life

Country: US

A newsprint publication aimed primarily at women in the larger urban centers, including assorted poems, articles and fiction pieces, one of them by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Issues & Index Sources

in 1910s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with The Mother's Magazine

Publishers

Home Life Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois

Editors

Josephine Conger-Kaneko

The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls

Country: UK

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 [1931]

Country: US

Distributed only through the Woolworth's stores.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1929 – Sep-1935:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Tower Magazines, Inc., Washington and South Ave, Dunellen, NJ
Editors:   Verne Porter
Formats:   large format slick
Prices:   20c
Frequency:   monthly

The Home Magazine [1856]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 490 (approximately)

subtitled 'A Journal of Entertainment and Instruction'

Issues & Index Sources: 1856 – 1866

Home [1879]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 35

"A literary and domestic magazine" which serialised Mrs. Riddell's "Daisies and Buttercups". A special Christmas issue for 1880 was put together by Mrs. Riddell's friends and featured fiction by Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Craik, Mrs. Riddell and others.

After May-1882 it changed it's name to St. Bride's, a Magazine for the City and the West-End.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1879 – May-1882:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Trafford and Company, 15 Wine-Office Court, Fleet Street, EC
Editors:   Mrs. J.H. Riddell
Prices:   6d