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The Ladies' Companion

Country: US

Imitation of Godey's Lady's Book and generally ran more fiction than its competitors; published Poe's "The Mystery of Marie Roget"; authors include Longfellow, W.G. Simms and J.K. Paulding.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1834 – Oct-1844
Publishers:   William W. Snowden
Editors:   William W. Snowden
Frequency:   monthly
Online Sources:   Online Books

Ladies' Diary

Country: UK

A miscellany and almanac which also ran fiction including the first genuine magazine serial in Britain, "The Unfortunate Courtier". Continued after 1709 but reverted to an almanac and fiction was switched to Delights for the Ingenious. Apparently noted it had 4,000 readers.

Issues & Index Sources:  1704 – 1709
Publishers:   John Tipper, Coventry
Editors:   John Tipper

The Ladies' Edinburgh Magazine

Country: UK

A literary magazine published by the Edinburgh Essay Society, later the Ladies' Edinburgh Literary Society, with contributions from women who became prominent figures in education, suffrage and welfare in Scotland.

Issues & Index Sources:  1875 – 1800
Publishers:   Maclaren & Macniven
Online Sources:   Online Books

The Ladies Gazette. A weekly journal for wives and daughters

Country: UK
Total Issues: 222

Began volume numbering on 19 Nov 1898 with Vol.XVI (#197-209). Went through several sizes and pagination.

Issues & Index Sources:  16-Feb-1895 – 13-May-1899
Publishers:   W.H. & L. Collingridge, 148 & 149 Aldersgate St., London E.C.; Aldine Publishing Co.
Frequency:   Weekly

The Ladies' Home Journal

Country: US

It was originally the women's section to Tribune and Farmer; Bok established its reputation for good quality articles and stories. Authors include W. Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Conan Doyle, Bret Harte, Mary E. Wilkins, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sarah Orne Jewett, Anthony Hope, H.G. Wells, Booth Tarkington, Willa Cather; was the first high-class monthly to reach 1 million circulation in 1903; it topped 2.5 million in 1933 and 6 million in 1960.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1883 – Jul-2014: The Standard Index of Short Stories (Hannigan Jan-1900 - Dec-1914 only; FicMags sample issues only)
FictionMags Index

Publishers

  Cyrus H.K. Curtis

Editors

  1889 – 1919: Edward Bok
  1935 – ?: Bruce & Beatrice Blackmar Gould

Formats

  originally small folio; became a big slick

Frequency

  monthly

Related Sites

  Wikipedia

Online Sources

  Online Books
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The Ladies' Home Magazine (UK)

see under The Woman at Home

The Ladies' Home Magazine (US)

see under Arthur's Home Magazine

The Ladies' Home Paper

Country: UK
Total Issues: 107

Incorporated into: Home Companion

Issues & Index Sources:  13-Feb-1909 – 25-Feb-1911
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press

The Ladies' Journal

Country: Canada

Women's magazine that published some fiction. Subtitled "Dedicated to Literature, Fashion, etc.".

Issues & Index Sources:  1880 – 1903: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Auxiliary Publishing Company
Frequency:   monthly
Online Sources:   Canadiana

Ladies' Magazine [1828]

Country: US
Total Issues: 108

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1828 – Dec-1829
  Jan-1830 – Dec-1833, as Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette
  Jan-1834 – Dec-1836, as American Ladies' Magazine: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

#merges with The Lady's Book

Publishers

  Jan-1828 – Dec-1829: Putnam & Hunt, Boston
  Jan-1830 – Dec-1833: John Putnam, Boston
  Jan-1834 – Dec-1836: J.B. Dow, Boston

Editors

  Mrs. Sarah J. Hale

Frequency

  monthly

The Ladies' Magazine [1844]

see under Arthur's Ladies' Magazine

Ladies' National Magazine

see under Peterson's Magazine

The Ladies' Novelette

Country: UK
Total Issues: 26

Took over from The Girl's World.

Issues & Index Sources:  12-May-1880 – 3-Nov-1880
Editors:   Ralph Rollington (John Allingham?)

Ladies of the Underworld

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 1?

Mixture of true crime and sexually-oriented stories. Although a New York publisher is listed it was printed in Canada and all the adverts are Canadian.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-194?: FictionMags Index
Publishers:   Headline Publications of America, 15 Park Row, New York 7, N.Y.
Prices:   25c

The Ladies' Pictorial

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2087

Called itself 'a journal of fashion, fiction and fact'. Serialised Sara Jeanette Duncarf's "An American Girl in London" (c. 1890-91). Included a children's page of stories and songs (title sometimes given as The Lady's Pictorial - may be a different magazine or a retitling).

Issues & Index Sources

  5-Mar-1881 – 26-Feb-1921

#merges with Eve

Editors

  Miss M.M.P. Lambert (final editor)

Formats

  large tabloid (folio)

The Ladies' Repository

Country: US

At first ran only essays and poetry, seeing fiction as sinful, but under Clark, after 1853, fiction began to appear and was a regular content from 1860. Curry remained editor of The National Repository with little change in content.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1841 – Dec-1876
  Jan-1877 – Dec-1880, as The National Repository

Publishers

  Agents of Methodist Book Concern, Cincinnati

Editors

  1841 – 1844: Leonidas Hamline
  1844 – 1846: Edward Thornson
  1846 – 1852: Benjamin Tefft
  1852 – 1853: William Clark Larrabee
  1853 – 1863: Davis Wasgatt Clark
  1864 – 1872: Isaac Wiley
  1872 – 1876: E. Wentworth
  1876: Daniel Curry

Frequency

  monthly

Online Sources

  Online Books

The Ladies' World

Country: US

The Ladies' World was another of the low-priced, mass-market magazines aimed at women and their interests. It was begun by as a "mail-order magazine" published on cheap newsprint. Bought in 1912 by McClure Publications, publishers of McClure's Magazine, it became a full-fledged magazine with some full-color covers by famous artists. Sales reached a million copies a month when a series of mystery stories "What Happened to Mary" became a runaway success in film; this film series is generally considered the first movie serial ever made.

Issues & Index Sources

  1886 – Jun-1918: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1886 – 1912: S.H. Moore Company, New York
  1912 – Jun-1918: McClure Publications

Prices

  5c

Pagecounts

  24pp
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Lads and Lasses

Country: UK
Total Issues: 26

Possibly titled Lads and Lassies as per Lofts?

Issues & Index Sources:  6-Mar-1894 – 28-Aug-1894
Publishers:   E.J. Brett
Frequency:   weekly

Lads of the Village

Country: UK
Total Issues: 40

Issues & Index Sources:  18-Jul-1874 – 17-Apr-1875
Publishers:   Henry Williams
Editors:   William Watkins
Frequency:   weekly


The Lady

Country: UK
Total Issues: 6048 (to Jan-2002)

"Annual short story competition with prize of \1000 plus"

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Website:   www.lady.co.uk/
Publishers:   The Lady (in 2002)
Editors:   in 1997 – 2002: Arline Usden
Prices:   80p (in 2002)
Pagecounts:   94pp (in 2002)
Frequency:   weekly
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