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The first story paper to make an impact was The Boys' and Girls' Penny Magazine, first published in September 1832. The first successful serial publication aimed at boys alone, and one of the most influential, was Samuel Beeton 's weekly Boy's Own Magazine, published from 1855 to 1890. [3][5] Between 1855 and 1920, over a dozen weekly serials ...
Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine, published in the UK from 1855 to 1890, was the first and most influential boys' magazine. [1]Boys' Own or Boy's Own or Boys Own, is the title of a varying series of similarly titled magazines, story papers, and newsletters published at various times and by various publishers, in the United Kingdom and the United States, from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th ...
Numerous magazines and annuals for children were published in Britain from the mid-19th century onward. Many of the magazines produced their own annuals, which sometimes shared the name of the magazine exactly, as Little Folks, or slightly modified, as The Boy's Own Paper and The Girl's Own Paper (first-listed below).
Boys of England was a British boys' periodical issued weekly from 1866 to 1899, and has been called "the leading boys' periodical of the nineteenth century". [1] The magazine was based in London. [2] Boys of England was edited by the publisher and former Chartist Edwin John Brett. Articles exhorted boys to participate in healthy outdoor games ...
London. Language. English. The Union Jack was a British story paper for children of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There were two story papers called Union Jack. The first appeared in the 1880s but was only very short-lived. The name was then used by Alfred Harmsworth in 1894 [1] for a new halfpenny story paper intended as a companion ...
A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers. Also known in Britain as "boys' weeklies", story papers were phenomenally popular before the outbreak of the Second World War. Among the most well-known British story papers was Boy's ...
Young England. (magazine) Young England: A Illustrated Magazine for Boys Throughout the English-Speaking World is a British story paper that was published from 1880 until 1937 and aimed at a similar audience to the Boy's Own Paper.
1764817. St. Nicholas Magazine was a popular monthly American children's magazine, founded by Scribner's in 1873 and named after the Christian saint. [1] The first editor was Mary Mapes Dodge, who continued her association with the magazine until her death in 1905. [2] Dodge published work by the country's leading writers, including Louisa May ...