Amalgamated Press

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Employer Pamela Frankau
PF started work for Amalgamated Press at Fleetway House in Farringdon Street, London, at 37s.6d. a week (later three pounds ten shillings), reading the slush pile.
Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson, 1935.
61, 62, 64, 66, 111
Publishing Hélène Barcynska
She persevered, however. She names about ten editors, male and female, who took her work at this time, sometimes offering advice as well as payment: a piece for the Sphere won her ten guineas from...
Textual Features Pamela Frankau
The book opens with school breakfasts, then with milking the school goat. PF calls herself P. Frankau at this stage of her story, of which she writes: There is no recapturing the essence of that...
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
After her implicit agreement with her estranged husband over Pretty Dear (that he could continue to take half her profits for publications under the name of Barcynska), Marguerite Barclay submitted to Woman's Weekly a new...

Timeline

1879: The Weldon's Ladies Journal began weekly...

Building item

1879

The Weldon's Ladies Journal began weekly publication in London from the Amalgamated Press .
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
55-6
Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
157
Beetham, Margaret, and Kay Boardman, editors. Victorian Women’s Magazines: An Anthology. Manchester University Press, 2001.
226

1955: Marilyn began weekly publication by the Amalgamated...

Building item

1955

Marilyn began weekly publication by the Amalgamated Press of London, as the first magazine directed at teenaged women readers.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
173
Alderson, Connie. Magazines Teenagers Read: With special reference to Trend, Jackie and Valentine. Pergamon Press, 1968.
5

Texts

No bibliographical results available.