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...
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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...
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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.