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Schoolgirls' Novel Library

Total Issues: 22

aka Schoolgirls' 4d Novel Library

Issues & Index Sources:  1930 – 1933
Publishers:   Gramol

The Schoolgirls' Own

Total Issues: 798

Authors included Horace Phillips.

Issues & Index Sources

  5-Feb-1921 – 23-May-1936

#incorporated into The Schoolgirl

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Charles St. John Pierce (c. 1923 - 1924)

Formats

  story paper

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  36pp

Frequency

  weekly

Schoolgirls' Own Library

Total Issues: 733

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1922 – Jun-1940: Fictionmags Website

#becomes Schoolgirls' Own Library (New Series)

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Prices

  4d; 4½d from #712

Pagecounts

  64pp; 96pp from #336

Schoolgirls' Own Library

"Stories, approximately 36,000 words, for schoolgirls of all ages".

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Publishers:   Fleetway Publications Ltd, Fleetway House, Farringdon St., London EC4
Frequency:   twice-monthly

Schoolgirls' Own Library (New Series)

Total Issues: 410

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1946 – Sep-1963: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press; Fleetway Publications
Editors:   1951 – 1961: Ernest McKeag
Prices:   7d; 8d from #115; 9d from #185; 10d from #231; 1/- from #311
Pagecounts:   96pp; 64pp from #21
Frequency:   2 per month

The Schoolgirls' Pictorial

Total Issues: 16

Issues & Index Sources:  3-Nov-1924 – 16-Feb-1925: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Shurey's Publications
Formats:   8.5" x 11" (in 1924)
Prices:   2d (in 1924)
Pagecounts:   24pp (in 1924)

Schoolgirls' Pocket Library

Total Issues: 36

Issues & Index Sources:  1941 – 1950: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts:   52pp

Schoolgirls (Second Series)

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1895 – Jun-1895
Publishers:   Marshall Bros.
Frequency:   monthly

Schoolgirls' Short Stories

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1945 – Jul-1946
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts:   36pp

Schoolgirls' Story Magazine

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1949
Publishers:   School Yarn Publications
Pagecounts:   12pp

The Schoolgirls' Weekly

Total Issues: 865

Issues & Index Sources

  21-Oct-1922 – 20-May-1939: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

#incorporated into Girls' Crystal

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  24pp

Frequency

  weekly (every Wednesday)

School Newspaper

Issues & Index Sources:  3-Jan-1874 – ?
Publishers:   William Collins
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   monthly

School Yarn Magazine

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1946 – Apr-1949
Publishers:   School Yarn Pubications, 93 Brownspring Drive, New Eltham, S.E.9
Editors:   Marjorie Russell
Prices:   4d
Frequency:   Alternate months (but irregular)

Science Adventure Stories

Hektographed fanzine. Before these two issues were published, Comet Publications published a booklet in 1937. It was titled "The Brain" and contained two stories by Oswald Train, "The Brain" and "The Lord of the Swamps."

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1938 – #2, 1938: Miller/Contento
Issue Checklist

Science and Invention

see under The Electrical Experimenter

Science Fantasy [1950]

Total Issues: 81+6+6=93

Notations like "printed 3/58" that appeared in the lower right corner of the contents page were the closest thing to dates that appeared in most issues. It was replaced by the separately numbered Impulse in March 1966.

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1950 – #81, 1966: Miller/Contento
  Mar-1966 – Aug-1966, as Impulse: Miller/Contento
  Sep-1966 – Feb-1967, as sf Impulse: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  #1, 1950 – #64, 1964: Nova Publications
  #65, 1964 – Feb-1967: Roberts & Vinter

Editors

  #1, 1950 – #2, 1950/1951: Walter Gillings
  #3, 1951/1952 – #64, 1964: John Carnell
  #65, 1964 – #81, 1966: Kyril Bonfiglioli
  Mar-1966 – Sep-1966: Kyril Bonfiglioli & Keith Roberts
  Oct-1966 – Feb-1967: Harry Harrison & Keith Roberts

Formats

  #1, 1950 – #64, 1964: digest
  #65, 1964 – Feb-1967: pocketbook

Prices

  #1, 1950 – #2, 1950/1951: 1/6d
  #3, 1951/1952 – #6, 1953: 2/-
  #7, 1954 – #10, 1954: 1/6d
  #11, 1954 – #45, 1961: 2/-
  #46, 1961 – #60, 1963: 2/6d
  #61, 1963 – #64, 1964: 3/-
  #65, 1964 – #81, 1966: 2/6d
  Mar-1966 – Feb-1967: 3/6d

Pagecounts

  #1, 1950 – #6, 1953: 96pp
  #7, 1954 – #35, 1959: 128pp
  #36, 1959 – #63, 1964: 112pp
  #64, 1964 – #81, 1966: 128pp
  Mar-1966 – Feb-1967: 160pp

Frequency

  quarterly but irregular to Spring 1953; bi-monthly from Mar-1954; monthly from Mar-1965.

Related Sites

  Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Issue Checklist

Science Fantasy [1970]

see also under Science Fantasy Yearbook

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