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Magazine Issues

Young Watchman

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1883 – ?

Publishers:   John Ritchie
Formats:   small
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   monthly

Young Writer

Total Issues: 20 (to Jan-2002)

"Specialist magazine for young writers aged about 7-15 years; ideas for them and writing by them. Includes interviews with famous writers by children, fiction and non-fiction pieces, poetry." Short stories are 750 words.

Issues & Index Sources: 1995 – present

Publishers:   Weobley, Herefordshire
Website:   www.mystworld.com/youngwriter/
Editors:   in 1997: Kate Jones
Prices:   £2.50
Frequency:   thrice-yearly

Yours Magazine

Aimed at over-55s. Contains non-fiction features and some fiction; "short stories up to 1800 words".

Issues & Index Sources: 1973 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   EMAP, Apex Publications, Oundle Rd., Peterborough
Editors:   in 1997: Neil Patrick
Frequency:   monthly

Youth [1882]

May-be the same as the title listed below.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1882

Publishers: James Henderson
Editors: Alfred Harmsworth

Youth [1882]

Total Issues: 294

Issues & Index Sources: 2-Aug-1882 – 25-Apr-1888

Publishers: A. Gibbons (Cambridge gives William Ingram)
Frequency: weekly

Youth: A Magazine of the Arts [1921]

Total Issues: 2

A magazine of critical comment and creative writing, YOUTH published poetry; short stories by Edith Chapman, Basil Thompson, and Albert Goldstein; and critical essays by Ben Hecht, etc. etc.

Also published a single (November 1921) issue of Puberty edited by "Julius Caesar" and "Q. Caius Lucretius". This was a parody of Youth in name, title and contents containing the story "Erotic Doorknob - A Censored Chapter" by Achilles Hector and other contributions.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1921 – Jan-1922:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: Jan-1922)

Publishers:   Youth Publishing Co., Chicago
Editors:   Sam Putnam and H. C. Auer, Jr.
Formats:   8.5" x 11"
Prices:   35c
Frequency:   "monthly"

Youth [1926]

Issues & Index Sources: 26-Mar-1926 – ?

Frequency: monthly

Youth [1946]

Total Issues: 1?

Subtitled "The Magazine for the Modern Generation", mainly non-fiction but included one vignette.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1946

Publishers:   32 Frognal Court, Finchley Road, London NW3
Editors:   Dorothy Lewin
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   24pp

Youth [1970]

"Magazine of the Wesley Guild, Christian Endeavour, Youth Clubs and Sunday Schools in connection with the Methodist Church. Literary and religious articles of about 650 words."

Issues & Index Sources: ? – c. 1970

Publishers:   Methodist Youth Department
Editors:   Douglas S. Hubery
Prices:   9d
Frequency:   monthly

Youthful Days

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1907 – 1908

Publishers: Amalgamated Press
Frequency: monthly

Youthopia

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources: 13-Apr-1940 – 18-May-1940

Publishers: in Northampton
Frequency: weekly

Youth's Biblical Cabinet

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources: 1843 – 1844

Frequency: monthly

The Youth's Companion [1827]

Started as a children's "instructive" paper but became a family magazine in 1857. Under Ford's editorshiop circulation rose tenfold to over 48,000. Authors included Virginia F. Townsend, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Orne Jewett, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Asbury Stephens, Jules Verne.

Issues & Index Sources

16-Apr-1827 – Sep-1929:

Index to The Youth's Companion: 1871-1929

#merges with The American Boy

Publishers

  1827 – 1856: Nathaniel Willis, Boston
  1857 – 1867: Olmstead & Co.
  1867 – 1929: Perry Mason [owned by Atlantic Monthly from 1925]

Editors

  1829 – 1956: Nathaniel Willis
  1857 – 1899: Daniel S. Ford [and associates]
  1900 – 1911: Edward Stanwood
  1911 – 1925: Charles Miner Thompson
  1925 – 1929: Harford Powel, Jr.

Frequency

1827 – 1928: weekly
1928 – 1929: monthly

The Youth's Companion [1855]

Issues & Index Sources: 1855 – ?

Youth's Gazette and Advertiser

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources: 1869 – 1870

Frequency: monthly

Youth's Guardian and Juvenile Friend

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1829 – ?

Publishers: Soutar
Frequency: monthly