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    London Life [April 27, 1935] (2/6d, 9½″ x 12″) []
    Jubilee Souvenir. The magazine is interspersed with photographs of classic art & bathing belles, and film stills.
    Details supplied by Larry Estep.
    • · The Talk of the Town (news snippets about the Royal Silver Jubilee) · Misc. · ms
    • · Developing a Negative · “Ad Astra” · ss
    • · When Jealousy Reigns · “Story Teller” · ss
    • · While the Bath Filled · “OK” · ss
    • · The Flatlet Business · “Candidus” · ms; about washing underwear in a flat.
    • · The Diamond Jubilee · “Legionnaire” · ar; about VR’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
    • · The Merry Month of May. Some Old Customs · Misc. · ar
    • · The Girl Who Trespassed · [uncredited] · ss; Joan thought a flirtation would be an amusing adventure, but when it came down to realities…
    • · The History of the Curl · Misc. · ss; article about women’s hair style.
    • · The Marsh Nomads · F. X. Delmere · ar; article about witchcraft in Poland.
    • · Are Negroes Ruling Our Music and Culture? What H. G. Wells and Paul Robeson think. · Misc. · ar
    • · Quite · [uncredited] · ss
    • · The Amazing Story of a Woman Who Did? · [uncredited] · ss; short story with a hint of S&M.
    • · The Weaker Sex · [uncredited] · ss
    • · From Adorables of 1910 to Lovelies of 1935 · Misc. · ar
    • · Future Fashions Revue · The Readers · lt; 32pp of readers contributions - thigh length boots, etc..
    • · The Life of Two London Girls · [uncredited] · sl
    • · Bird in Borrowed Plumes · William J. Elliott · ss
    • · Monthly sales and wants section · Misc. · ms; a page of ads for corsets, thigh length boots, etc..
    • · Letters to the Editor · The Readers · lc
    • · Anything to Oblige · Stocker Shaw · ss
    • · Old London. Its Customs and Cruelties · Misc. · ar
    • · Crystal Gazing Is Sometimes Lucrative · Byron Borne Lazee · ss
    • · From Gutter to Glitter · [uncredited] · sl
    • · Tales from the Barber’s Chair · [uncredited] · sl; serial, involving long-hair fetishism.
    • · Significance of Dreams · The Readers · lt; readers questions about their S&M dreams.
    • · Lady Wrestlers of America · C. Guyette · ar
    • · The Pain-God of the Hills · W. C. Best-Randall · ss; (“Up there, upon the hill top, shrieking men and women writhed and twisted in the terrible ecstatic Dance of Pain. The High Priest of the Pain God was a mad menace. But below, in that hidden cavern of the hills, his madness was a mask for horrors even beyond the ken of those mad dancers”)
    • · The Stars in the Heavens · Nina De Luna · ms; astrology.



    The London Magazine (1898):   (about)
    The London Magazine—UK; Jul. 1898-May 1933 (419 issues); began as The Harmsworth Magazine; monthly; standard format, imitation-Strand; editors Cecil Harmsworth (1898-?), Charles Sisley (1902-Dec. 1905), David Whitelaw; initially priced at 3d (half the price of The Strand), at its peak, around 1906-1913, it was probably the best popular fiction magazine in the UK; published rather more adventure/mystery fiction than others, and most popular writers of the day appeared; indexed, Victorian Fiction Research Guide #10 by Sue Thomas (Univ of Queensland, 1984) covers fiction only from 1898-1915.






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