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Woman's Weekly Fiction Special

Fiction companion magazine to long-standing women's magazine Woman's Weekly.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 2000: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   IPC Media
Editors:   in 2000: Olwen Rice
Formats:   small tabloid
Frequency:   bi-monthly

Woman's Weekly Library

No. 1 contained "The Changing Years" by Denise Robins; No. 1250, May 1975, contained "Golden Isle" by Nancy Barnard; the series probably ceased publication in the 1980s.

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1962 – ?
Publishers:   Fleetway Publications, later IPC Magazines
Formats:   small booklet, 64pp, initially priced 1/- (8 new pence by 1975)
Frequency:   twice-monthly, increasing to 12 a month by 1975

Woman's World [1884]

Women's magazine that published occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1884 – 1940
Related Sites:   MagazineArt

The Woman's World [1886]

Total Issues: 48

Designed as the first social magazine for women. Under Reid published little fiction but under Wilde actively promoted fiction and poetry amongst its normal farrago of social, cultural and artistic issues. Authors were mostly women -- Olive Schreiner, Lady Wilde, Marie Corelli, G.L. Craik, Violet Fane.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1886 – Oct-1887, as The Lady's World
  Nov-1887 – Oct-1890, as The Woman's World

Publishers

  Cassell, London

Editors

  Nov-1886 – Mar-1887: Wemyss Reid
  Apr-1887 – Aug-1889: Oscar Wilde
  Sep-1889 – Oct-1889: Arthur Fish?

Formats

  standard

Prices

  1/-

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  BritLit3

Woman's World [1906]

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1906 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Formats:   7" x 10.2" (in 1916); 7.5" x 11" (in 1946)
Prices:   1d (in 1916); 3d (in 1946)
Frequency:   weekly
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Woman's World [1986]

Every issue features one short romance story, and a shorter mystery. Published "The Lost Angel" by Mary Higgins Clark (2-Dec-1986)

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1986 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Editors:   Stephanie Saible (in 2002)
Formats:   slick tabloid
Prices:   $1.49 (in 2002)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's World Library

"Complete romantic and family novels of 50,000 words, with accent on love interest".

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s
Publishers:   Fleetway Publications Ltd, Fleetway House, Farringdon St., London EC4
Frequency:   twice-monthly

Women in Crime

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Sources:   CookMDE
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Women-in-War

Total Issues: 3+

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1959? – Feb-1964?
Publishers:   Normandy Associates
Sources:   MansWorld

Women's (Home) Stories

see under Home Stories and Answers Library

Women's Library of Intrigue and Romance

Total Issues: 3?

#1 (1924) = "The Desert Wanderer"

Issues & Index Sources:  1924
Publishers:   Hornsey Journal

Women's Novel Library

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Publishers:   Gramol
Pagecounts:   52pp

Women's Romance

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1949: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp

Women's Stories

Total Issues: 20+146=166

Published mostly women's stories but did publish some of Ray Cummings's Scientific Club stories in 1920-1921.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Nov-1913 – Nov-1914: Fictionmags Website
  Dec-1914 – Jun-1926?, as Live Stories: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1-Nov-1913 – Apr-1916: Street & Smith
  May/Jun-1916 – Aug-1925: New Fiction (Clayton)

Formats

  standard pulp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide

Women's Stories

see also under Answers Library

Women's Words

Short stories only with diverse subject matter. No payment. Note: not to be confused with the poetry annual Women's Words published in North Carolina

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1997 – present
Publishers:   Three Women Press, Maynard, MA
Editors:   editorial collective
Formats:   large digest
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   twice yearly

The Wonder

Total Issues: 25

Only the first series (25 issues) is a story-paper, all the others are comics.

Issues & Index Sources

  16-Nov-1901 – 3-May-1902 (#1-25)
  10-May-1902 – 17-May-1902, as The Wonder and Jester (#26-27)
  24-May-1902 – 20-Jan-1912, as The Jester and Wonder (#28-533)
  27-Jan-1912 – 18-Dec-1920, as The Jester (#534-998)
  25-Dec-1920 – 15-Feb-1924, as Jolly Jester (#999-1163)
  23-Feb-1924 – 18-May-1940, as The Wonder

#incorporated into The Funny Wonder

Publishers

  Harmsworth

Formats

  tabloid

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

The Wonder

Total Issues: 64

Only the first series (64 issues) is a story-paper, all the others are comics.

Issues & Index Sources

  4-Jan-1913 – 21-Mar-1914 (#1-64)
  28-Mar-1914 – 19-Dec-1914, as The Halfpenny Wonder (#1-39)
  26-Dec-1914 – 16-May-1942, as The Funny Wonder (#40-1443)
  30-May-1942 – 12-Sep-1953, as The Wonder (#1444-1760)

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Formats

  tabloid

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly


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