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School Friend (story Paper)
''School Friend'' was the name of a pioneering story paper marketed exclusively to girls, published from 1919 to 1929. The name was later used by Amalgamated Press on a girls' comic (also the first of its kind) in 1950. The story paper focused on the Cliff House School for Girls, a fictional school first introduced ten years earlier in the boys' story paper ''The Magnet''.''The Magnet'' #59 (Amalgamated Press, 1909). With the success of Amalgamated Press (AP)'s boys' story papers like ''The Magnet'' and ''The Gem'', the publisher was seeking to expand into new markets. AP editor Reg Eves, impressed by the letters he received from female readers of ''The Magnet'', launched ''School Friend'' in 1919, becoming its first editor. ''The School Friend'' was published in two series, from 17 May 1919 to 28 February 1925, for a total of 303 issues; and 7 March 1925 to 27 July 1929 for a total of 229 issues. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Eves
Reginald Thompson Eves (12 December 1892 – 1972) was a British editor and writer of comics and story papers for the Amalgamated Press. He joined the company in 1908,Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, p. 55 and during the First World War was assistant editor, under editor John Nix Pentelow, of the boys' story papers ''The Magnet'' and ''The Gem'',Steve HollandThe Men Behind Girls' Fiction Collecting Books and Magazines, 2001 also writing many of the stories. He was impressed by the letters he received from female readers of ''The Magnet'', and after the war, when AP were seeking to expand into new markets, he launched the girls' story paper ''School Friend'' in 1919, becoming its first editor. However, he primarily used the male writers he was familiar with from the boys' papers, like Charles Hamilton. In the 1920s he took charge of a group of papers, including '' The Champion'', '' The Rocket'' and '' The Trium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessie Bunter
Elizabeth Gertrude Bunter, better known as Bessie Bunter, is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton, who also created her more famous brother Billy Bunter. History Billy Bunter was a central character in the Greyfriars School stories which appeared in the boys' story paper ''The Magnet'' from 1907 to 1940, and Bessie's first appearance was in a 1919 Greyfriars story. She was a pupil of Cliff House School, a girls' school near Greyfriars. In 1919, attempting to replicate the success of ''The Magnet'', Amalgamated Press decided to bring out a new magazine for girls called ''The School Friend'' (later continued as ''The Schoolgirl''), which included stories about Cliff House originally by Hamilton, using the pen name "Hilda Richards," supposedly the sister of "Frank Richards." The stories were soon taken over by other authors, also using the name Hilda Richards. The most prolific of these substitute writers was John W. Wheway, who wrote well over 500 Cliff House stori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magazines Established In 1919
A magazine is a periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content forms. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event. Term origin and definition Origin The etymology of the word "magazine" suggests derivation from the Arabic (), the broken plural of () meaning "depot, storehouse" (originally military storehouse); that comes to English via Middle French and Italian . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Children's Magazines Published In The United Kingdom
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1929 Disestablishments In The United Kingdom
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1919 Establishments In The United Kingdom
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Girls' Crystal
''Girls' Crystal'' (also known as ''The Crystal'', ''Girls' Crystal Weekly'' and ''Girls' Crystal and School Girl'' at various points) was a British weekly fictional anthology publication aimed at girls. Published by Amalgamated Press and later Fleetway Publications from 26 October 1935 to 18 May 1963. Uniquely for an Amalgamated Press title, ''Girls' Crystal'' began as a story paper before transforming into a picture comic between editions, with the new format debuting on 21 March 1953. It ran for a combined total of 1432 issues before merging with ''School Friend'' in 1963. Publishing history After audience research revealed that story papers such as ''The Magnet'' and ''The Gem'' had a sizeable female readership, Amalgamated Press took advantage of this audience by launching ''The School Friend'' in 1919, the first such paper aimed squarely at girls. It was a success, and was soon joined by sister title ''The Schoolgirl'' - not to mention numerous rivals launched by other p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoolgirls' Own
The ''Schoolgirls' Own'' was a British weekly story paper aimed at girls. Published by , it was launched in February 1921 and ran for 798 issues until May 1936, when it was merged with a sister publication. The main feature centred on the Morcove School, a "high class" girls' boarding school for the daughters of the aristocratic and the rich, although the school did also accept some pupils from working-class backgrounds. Cookery and needlework were also featured regularly, as it was at that time "considered vital that young girls knew how to cook and sew." All the Morcove stories were by Horace Phillips, using the pen name of "Marjorie Stanton." The Friardale Website described ''Schoolgirls' Own'' thus: In 1936 ''Schoolgirls' Own'' was merged into its sister story paper ''The Schoolgirl'' and the Morcove stories moved to ''The Schoolgirl'' as the backup feature for two years before being quietly dropped. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bunter
William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, a fictional English public school in Kent, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper '' The Magnet'' from 1908 to 1940. The character has appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays and in comic strips. He is in the Lower Fourth form of Greyfriars School, known as the Remove, whose members are 14–15 years of age. Time is frozen in the Greyfriars stories; although the reader sees the passing of the seasons, the characters' ages do not change and they remain in the same year groups. Originally a minor character, Bunter's role was expanded over the years with his antics being heavily used in the stories for comic relief and to advance the plots. Bunter's defining characteristics are his naive greed, self-indulgence, and overweight appearance. He is in many respects an obnoxious anti-hero. Besides h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hamilton (writer)
Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (8 August 1876 – 24 December 1961) was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also wrote in other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous being Frank Richards for the Greyfriars School stories featuring Billy Bunter. Other important pen-names included Martin Clifford (for St Jim's), Owen Conquest (for Rookwood) and Ralph Redway (for The Rio Kid). He also wrote hundreds of stories under his real name such as the Ken King stories for '' The Modern Boy.'' He is estimated to have written about 100 million words in his lifetime and has featured in the ''Guinness Book of Records'' as the world's most prolific author. Vast amounts of his output are available on the Friardale website. Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Schoolgirl
''The Schoolgirl'' was a British weekly story paper aimed at girls. Published by Amalgamated Press (AP), ''The Schoolgirl'' ran in two series, the first from 1922 to 1923, and the second (essentially continuing a sister publication) from 1929 to 1940. Most stories in ''The Schoolgirl'' centred on the girls and staff of Cliff House School, a fictional establishment in Kent, on a clifftop overlooking the sea. Cliff House was the sister school of Greyfriars School, Greyfriars, where Billy Bunter was educated, and had its own equivalent, his sister Bessie Bunter. The Cliff House School was introduced in the Amalgamated Press boys' story paper ''The Magnet'' in 1909. Bessie Bunter and Cliff House School stories had been a regular feature of the first girls' story paper, ''The School Friend'', beginning in 1919 and continuing through 1929. Publication history The first series of ''The Schoolgirl'' was launched on 21 February 1922, and the publication was 28 pages long. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
