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The People's Friend

Country: UK
Total Issues: 7711 (to 27-Jan-2018)

A coelacanth of the British periodical publishing industry, a 19th-century story paper which is still going as a popular weekly of light romances.

Note that issues seem to start from #8, 4-Aug-1869.

Issues & Index Sources:  14-Jun-1869 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk
Publishers:   John Leng, Dundee; later D.C. Thomson
Editors:   currently Sinclair Matheson
Formats:   story paper
Frequency:   weekly

The People's Friend Story Library

Country: UK

"50,000 - 55,000-word family and romantic stories aimed at 30+ age group".

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1970 – ?
Publishers:   D.C. Thomson, Dundee
Formats:   small booklet, 132pp
Frequency:   twice-monthly

People's Home Journal [Peters, 1885]

Country: US
Total Issues: 56

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – 1890
Publishers:   Peters & Co.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


People's Home Journal [Lupton, 1885]

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – 1929: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   F.M. Lupton
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust


People's Illustrated Monthly Telephone

Country: US
Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1881 – Jan-1882: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issue only)
Publishers:   George H. Gilman, Houlton, ME
Formats:   12 x 17 3/4"
Pagecounts:   8
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


The People's Journal [1846]

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources

  3-Jan-1846 – Jul-1849: Index to Periodical Literature
  Jul-1849 – Jun-1851, as People's and Howitt's Journal: Index to Periodical Literature (incorporates Howitt's Journal)

Editors

  John Saunders, William Howitt

Formats

  tabloid

Frequency

  weekly

The People's Journal [1858]

Country: UK

A story paper with many serials and short stories, Scottish in flavour.

Issues & Index Sources:  2-Jan-1858 – 1990
Publishers:   John Leng, Dundee, later D.C. Thomson
Formats:   small tabloid
Prices:   1½d
Frequency:   weekly

People's Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 27

Issues & Index Sources:  1899 – 1901
Publishers:   American News Company
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


People's Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 411

Issues & Index Sources:  1878 – 1889
Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


People's Literary Companion

Country: US
Total Issues: 636

Story-paper; contributors include Anne S. Stephens, William Eyster, Prentiss Ingraham.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1869 – Nov-1907: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  E.C. Allen, Augusta, Maine

Formats

  large tabloid story paper

Prices

  5c

Pagecounts

  8pp (16pp last few issues)

Frequency

  Oct-1869 – Sep-1871: monthly
  Oct-1871 – 28-May-1881: weekly
  Jun-1881 – Nov-1907: monthly

Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

People's Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 82+14+39+78+24+42=279

Ran Frank L. Packard's "Jimmy Dale" stories; authors include H. Bedford-Jones, J. Allan Dunn, Harold Lamb, Achmed Abdullah, Perley Poore Sheehan, George Allan England, William Merriam Rouse.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1906 – Dec-1909: General Fiction Index
  Jan-1910 – Jun-1914, as People's Ideal Fiction Magazine: General Fiction Index
  Jul-1914 – Sep-1917, as People's: General Fiction Index
  10-Aug-1917 – 25-Nov-1921, as People's Favorite Magazine: General Fiction Index (incomplete)
  10-Dec-1921 – 25-Nov-1922, as People's Story Magazine: General Fiction Index
  10-Dec-1922 – 15-Aug-1924, as People's: General Fiction Index (incomplete)

#superseded by Complete Stories

Publishers

  Street & Smith Publications, Inc.

Editors

  1906 – ?: Archibald L. Sessions
  1909 – 1910: John W. Harding
  ?: Gardner Hunting
  ?: Eugene Clancy

Formats

  Jul-1906 – 25-Jul-1919: standard pulp
  Sep-1919 – Sep-1920: bedsheet
  Oct-1920 – 15-Aug-1924: standard pulp

Prices

  1906 – 1908: 10c
  1908 – 11-Aug-1918: 15c
  25-Aug-1918 – 15-Aug-1924: 20c

Pagecounts

  192pp

Frequency

  monthly, switched to twice-monthly 10-Aug-1917

Related Sites

  The Pulp Magazines Project

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Online Sources

  Online Books (4 issues only)
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The People's Penny Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 205

Mostly women's-orientated fiction, usually romantic or mystery. Mostly a serial episode each issue plus one or two stories; title contracted to People's Stories in 1909 (though cover showed it as People's 1d Stories).

Issues & Index Sources

  4-May-1906 – 1-Apr-1910: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
  8-Apr-1910 – ?, as My Weekly

Publishers

  John Leng, London

Formats

  digest

Prices

  1d

Pagecounts

  64pp

Frequency

  weekly

The People's Periodical and Family Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 52

Serialised Prest's notorious "The String of Pearls" about Sweeny Todd.

Issues & Index Sources:  1846 – 1847
Publishers:   Edward Lloyd, London
Formats:   tabloid story paper
Frequency:   weekly

People's Pocket Edition of Novels

Country: US
Total Issues: 10?

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1860s: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Jones & Co., 32 Congress St., Boston, MA
Formats:   5 1/4 x 3 7/8"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   96
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


People's Popular Monthly

Country: US

Mainstream monthly, tabloid, on newsprint that featured some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1920s: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Frequency:   monthly
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People's Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 50

Issues & Index Sources:  5-Jul-1894 – 15-Jun-1896: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   Conkey
Formats:   7 x 5"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   200
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography



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