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Woman's Weekly Fiction Special

Country: UK

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

Issues & Index Sources: c. 2000:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   IPC Media
Editors:   in 2000: Olwen Rice
Formats:   small tabloid
Frequency:   bimonthly

Woman's Weekly Library

Country: UK

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]

Country: US

Women's magazine that published occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1884 – 1940

Online Sources: Online Books



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The Woman's World [1886]

Country: UK
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

Related Sites

Wikipedia

Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 3

Online Sources

Online Books

Woman's World [1906]

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1906 – ?: FictionMags Index (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

Woman's World [1986]

Country: US

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: 1981 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Website:   www.womansworld.com
Editors:   Stephanie Saible (in 2002)
Formats:   slick tabloid
Prices:   $1.49 (in 2002)
Frequency:   weekly

Woman's World Library

Country: UK

"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

Woman's World Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 7?

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1896 – Feb-1897: Dime Novel Bibliography (Missing: #2, #4)

Publishers:   J.H. Plummer, 225-227 Temple Court, New York
Formats:   7 1/8 x 4 7/8"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   100pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The Woman Today

Country: US

Published four stories in the first issue at least.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1935 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   The Zoty publishing corporation
Editors:   Julia Shawell
Frequency:   monthly

Women in Crime

Country: US

True crime. Also known as True Cases of Women in Crime, True Stories of Women in Crime and Women in Crime True Fact Detective Cases.

Issues & Index Sources

1945 – ?

Publishers

  in 1940s: Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY
  in 1950s: Skye Publishing Co., 270 Park Ave., New York, NY, 60 W 46th St., New York, NY, and Louisville, KY

Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines