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Woman and Home

Ran short stories and serials in 1962; still in existence as an IPC monthly in 2000, and still publishing fiction: "complete stories from 1000 - 5000 words".

Issues & Index Sources

1926 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, later IPC

Website

www.ipcmedia.com/magazines/womanhome/

Editors

  in 1962: Jean D. Twiddy
  in 1997: Jan Henderson
  in 2000: Sarah Kilby
  in 2004: Sue James

Formats

big slick?

Frequency

monthly

The Woman at Home

Total Issues: 447

Strand-type magazine with features and fiction. Aimed at women with young children. Ran regular stories by Annie S. Swan. Under the later name of The Home Magazine was famous for first publishing Richmal Crompton's "William" stories (from Feb-1919). That series moved to The Happy Mag. in Jun-1922.

It absorbed The Sunday Strand from Jul-1910, and The Girls Realm (which was briefly incorporated into the title) from Dec-1915. It also absorbed The Ladies' Field from Aug-1928 (also incorporated briefly. into the title)

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1893 – Sep-1905:	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)	(FicMags has sample issues only)
	Fictionmags Website	(FicMags has sample issues only)

Oct-1905 – May-1918, as Woman at Home:

Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Jun-1918 – May-1922, as The Home Magazine:

Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Jun-1922 – Oct-1922, as The Ladies' Home Magazine:

Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Nov-1922 – Jan-1931, as The Home Magazine:

Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

#merges with Homes and Gardens

Publishers

Oct-1893 – Jul-1909: Hodder & Stoughton
Aug-1909 – Jan-1931: Newnes

Editors

  Oct-1893 – Jun-1909: Jane T. Stoddart (though listed as Annie Swan)
  Jul-1909 – May-1918: Alice M. Head
  Jun-1918 – 1921: Miss M. Cruickshank
  1921 – 1929: Beatrice Goodwin
  1930 – Jan-1931: Elsie H. Shand

Formats

standard (glossy slick from Mar-1920 to Aug-1920)

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AgeStory

Woman's Companion

Woman's story paper. Possibly absorbed into Woman's Weekly on 25-Mar-1961.

Issues & Index Sources: 1927? – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Formats:   7.5" x 10.5" (in 1945)
Prices:   3d (in 1945)
Pagecounts:   28pp (in 1945)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's Day

A magazine sold through A.& P. stores; by 1955 had a circulation of 3.575 million.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1937 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers: originally Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Editors: Eileen Tighe (in 1940)

Woman's Friend

Woman's story paper. Absorbed Lady's Companion in 1940, and was called Woman's Friend and Lady's Companion for a while at least. Absorbed by Glamour in Sep-1950.

Issues & Index Sources

1924? – Aug-1950:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

#merges with Glamour (UK)

Publishers

C. Arthur Pearson

Formats

7.5" x 10.5" (in 1936); 10" x 12.5" (in 1941)

Prices

2d (in 1936); 2½d (in 1941)

Pagecounts

32pp (in 1936); 24pp (in 1941)

Frequency

weekly

Woman's Home Companion

One of the most successful women's titles, with a circulation eventually exceeding 4 million. Authors of fiction included Edna Ferber, Pearl S. Buck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shirley Jackson, John Steinbeck; previously the semi-monthly magazine for children, Ladies' Home Companion (1873 - 1897).

Issues & Index Sources

1897 – Jan-1957:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

1897 – 1934: Crowell
1934 – 1957: Crowell-Collier

Editors

1911 – 1940: Gertrude Battles Lane

Formats

big slick

Frequency

monthly

Related Sites

MagazineArt

Woman's Journal

Total Issues: 889

An impressive British slick at its outset: a sample issue from Jun-1928, over 12" high by 9" wide, has 192 pages (price 1/-), with fiction by John Galsworthy ("Swan Song," Part 3), A. A. Milne (segments of "The House at Pooh Corner"), Fanny Heaslip Lea, E. Barrington, Betty Trask, etc. A sample issue from May-1999, somewhat smaller in dimensions, has 146 pages (price \2.30) and contains no fiction at all, though it does have an interview with Salman Rushdie (about his love life).

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1927 – Feb-2002:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, later IPC Magazines, London

Editors

  1927 – 1944: Harold W. Snoad
  1946 – 1964: Forothy M. Sutherland
  1965 – 1966: Ailsa Garland
  1967 – 1969: Edith Teague
  1970 – 1978: Kathleen Jones
  1978 – 1988: Laurie Purden
  1989 – 1997: Deirdre Vine
  1998: Marcelle d'Argy Smith
  1999 – 2002: Elsa McAlonan

Formats

large slick

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AgeStory

Woman's Life

Total Issues: 1174

Issue 1-7 and 9 are unnumbered.

Incorporated into: Woman's Own

Issues & Index Sources: 14-Dec-1895 – 22-Sep-1934

Publishers: George Newnes
Frequency: Weekly

Woman's Magazine (UK)

Merged with The Girls' Own Paper, as The Girl's Own Paper and Woman's Magazine, 1908 - 1931; demerged, 1931.

Issues & Index Sources

1880? – 1908

#merges with Girl's Own Paper

Apr-1931 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

The Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, London EC, later Lutterworth Press (The United Society for Christian Literature), 4 Bouverie St, London EC4

Editors

? – 1931: Flora Klickmann
1931 – ?: May Marshall

Woman's Magazine and Girls' Own Paper

see under Girl's Own Paper

The Woman's Magazine (US)

see under New Idea Woman's Magazine

Woman's Mirror

"Fiction: serial stories should have a flavour of realism... not more than six parts of 6000 words each; no escapist love stories, but honest romance welcome and occasional mystery; one short story per week (3000 words)".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s

Publishers:   Fleetway Publications Ltd, Fleetway House, Farringdon St., London EC4
Editors:   Jodi Hyland (in 1962); Joy Scully (in 1964)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's Outlook

"Sentimental or family life short stories... about 2500 words".

Issues & Index Sources: 1919 – ?

Publishers:   Co-operative Press Ltd, 418 Chester Rd., Manchester, Manchester 16
Editors:   Doreen Browne (in 1962)
Frequency:   monthly

Woman's Own

Published "What to Tell Santos" by Molly Brown (21-May-1990)

Issues & Index Sources

? – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Pearson, later Newnes, later IPC

Website

www.ipcmedia.com/magazines/womansown/

Editors

  in 1962: George A. Rogers
  in 1997: Keith McNeill
  1998 – 2001: Terry Tavner
  Jan-2002 – present: Elsa McAlonan

Formats

tabloid

Prices

3d (in 1945)

Frequency

weekly

Woman's Pictorial

Authors include F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Issues & Index Sources: 1919 – 1956:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Editors:   Harold W. Snoad
Formats:   8.75" x 11.5"
Prices:   4½d (in 1954)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's Realm

Published romance and crime short stories and serials including work by Antonia Fraser, Celia Fremlin, Paula Gosling.

Issues & Index Sources: 1958 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   IPC
Editors:   currently Kathy Watson
Formats:   tabloid slick
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's Story Magazine

see under My Story Magazine

Woman's Way

Ireland's biggest-selling weekly women's magazine with a circulation of 66,260. It was set up in 1963.

Woman's Way covers human interest stories, particularly with an Irish interest, celebrity interviews (Irish and international), fashion, interiors, beauty, health, travel, fiction, etc.

Issues & Index Sources: 1963 – present

Publishers:   Smurfit Publications, Dublin
Editors:   Celine Naughton (in 1997)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's Weekly

One of the longest running women's general interest magazines but with a heavy interest in short fiction and serials.

Issues & Index Sources

1911 – present

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, later IPC

Website

www.ipcmedia.com/magazines/womansweekly/

Editors

  in 1962: Jean Twiddy
  in 1997: Olwen Rice
  in 2002 – in 2004: Gilly Sinclair

Formats

small tabloid

Prices

in 2002: 66p

Pagecounts

in 2002: 68pp

Frequency

weekly