London Life [April 27, 1935] (2/6, 9½" x 12") Jubilee Souvenir. The magazine is interspersed with photographs of classic art & bathing belles, and film stills. [LE:19711]
· The Talk of the Town (news snippets about the Royal Silver Jubilee) · Misc. Material · 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 VRs Diamond Jubilee in 1897)
· The Merry Month of May. Some Old Customs · Misc. Material · ar
· The Girl Who Trespassed · Anon. · ss; (Joan thought a flirtation would be an amusing adventure, but when it came down to realities...)
· The History of the Curl · Misc. Material · ss; (article about womens 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. Material · 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)
London Life [December 1947] ed. Anon. (New Picture Press, 1/-, 70pp, 5" x 7.2") [PSP]
The London Magazine The London Magazine UK; Jul. 1898-May 1933 (419 issues); began as The Harmsworth Magazine (Jul. 1898-Aug. 1903); Harmsworth (Amalgamated Press from 1901); 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.
This list contains information from 28 issues out of a total of 419. A complete index to this and other British fiction magazines is forthcoming from the British Library. For more information click here.
The London Magazine [v14 #79, February 1905] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 120pp, standard) Details taken from bound volume 14.
449 · Do Women Spend Too Much on Dress? · Mary Howarth · ar
455 · The Sport of a Millionaire · E. M. Laumann · ss; first published in Lecture pour Tous, February 1905, as Gaîté de milliardaire.; illus. Richard Wallace
110 · The Railway Children [Part 8 of 13] · E. Nesbit · sl
117 · The Story of Tausand-Pott [Part 5 of 8] · J. R. Monsell · pm
The London Magazine [v15 # 86, September 1905] ed. Charles P. Sisley (Amalgamated Press, 4½d, 121-240pp, standard) Details taken from bound volume 15. [PSP]