The Girl's Own Paper
The Girl's Own Paper was a British weekly magazine for girls and young women. It was published in London from 1880 to 1956 .
history
The first issue of The Girl's Own Paper appeared on January 3, 1880. Like its male counterpart, The Boy's Own Paper , the magazine was published by the Religious Tract Society (later Lutterworth Press). From October 1929 the magazine appeared with the title The Girl's Own Paper and Woman's Magazine , in 1930 Woman's Magazine became a separate publication. In December 1947 the name was changed to The Girl's Own Paper and Heiress . The last edition appeared in 1956.
Facsimile reprints of Volumes 1 to 4 were published by Eureka Press in Japan in 2006. Several issues can be viewed online in Project Gutenberg .
content
The content of the magazine consisted of a mixture of stories and educational articles, with “Answers to Correspondents” and occasionally colored panels, poems and music. In the 1890s she ran several accounts of the nurse Kate Marsden and presented her as a role model to readers.
From 1908 onwards, the magazine increasingly contained information about possible careers for girls, as well as advice on style and clothing. Long series became rarer and were replaced by shorter stories. From the 1930s onwards, more of the content was aimed at younger readers. There were school stories, stories about kidnapped princesses, and articles about movie stars, though the content got more serious during WWII .
Volumes 39/40 (1917/18) were temporarily titled The Girls Own Paper and Woman's Magazine ; The two publications were probably merged for economic reasons as a result of the First World War .
Well-known employees
Contributors to the magazine included Noel Streatfeild , Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, Rosa Nouchette Carey, Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), Angela Brazil, Lucy Maud Montgomery , Richmal Crompton, Fanny Fern, and Emma Orczy .
From 1940 to 1947, William Earl Johns published 60 stories about the fictional female pilot Worrals (Joan Worralson).
List of publishers
- Charles Peters (1880-1907)
- Flora Klickmann (1908–1931)
- Gladys Spratt and others (1931–1956)
literature
- Wendy Forrester, Great Grandmama's Weekly: A Celebration of the Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1901 , Lutterworth Press, 1988; ISBN 978-0-7188-2717-5
- Terri Doughty, Selections from the Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1907 , Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004; ISBN 978-1-55111-528-3
- Judith Barger, Music in The Girl's Own Paper: An Annotated Catalog, 1880–1910 , Oxon / New York: Routledge 2016; ISBN 978-1472454539
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Spirit of Love and Truth . January 2, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2019.