''The People's Friend'' is a British weekly magazine founded by John Leng on 13 January 1869 as an offshoot of ''

The People's Journal ''The People's Journal'', first published in 1858, was a Dundee-based Scottish periodical, originally produced by John Leng & Co., a local publishing company that for a time enjoyed the Scottish artist, political cartoonist, postcard illustrat ...

'' and currently published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Its

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is "The famous story magazine". It was originally a monthly magazine but became a weekly magazine in 1870, and had its first illustrated cover on 11 May 1946.

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wrote for the magazine. The current editor is Angela Gilchrist. The magazine is principally aimed at older women. Each issue contains at least seven self-contained short stories and two serials (frequently more), a

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project (usually knitting or sewing) and various factual articles, one of which is a piece on a particular town.

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and

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s are also common themes. During

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, the focus of the magazine shifted to women. The magazine holds an annual craft competition called "The Love Darg" (a Scots term for a day's work done without asking payment) in which readers are asked to make toys and garments. After judging, the entries are distributed to charities. The magazine's geographical location in Dundee is reflected in a general bias toward Scottish subjects. The main front cover image is invariably a painting of a picturesque location somewhere in Britain or Ireland, and readers can also buy prints of these pictures. The paintings are made by a variety of artists but are credited to the collective

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J. Campbell Kerr, which is also used for the "Round Britain" feature within the magazine.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Peoples Friend, The 1869 establishments in the United Kingdom Women's magazines published in the United Kingdom Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1869 Mass media in Dundee