Family Herald

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{italic title}} thumb|Front page of The Family Herald, No. 427, 12 July 1851 '''''The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information & Amusement''''' (1843–1940) was a weekly story paper launched by George Biggs in 1842, and re-established in May 1843 with James Elishama Smith and mechanised printing. By 1855 it had a circulation of 300,000.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Howard Cox|author2=Simon Mowatt|title=Revolutions from Grub Street: A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKzSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA8|date=March 2014|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-960163-9|page=8}}</ref>

Initially a penny weekly, the ''Family Herald'' later sold at 2d. Contributors included James George Stuart Burges Bohn, Charlotte Mary Brame (1836–84), Bertha Henry Buxton, William Carpenter, James Hain Friswell, Fanny Aikin Kortright (1821–1900), Watts Phillips (1825–74), Frederick William Robinson (1830–1901), Nina Moore Jamieson (1885-1932), Henrietta Stannard (1856–1911), Annie Tinsley (1808–85)<ref>ODNB entry for each listed contributor</ref> and Mary Cecil Hay.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Pamela K. Gilbert|title=A companion to sensation fiction|date=2011|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=Malden, MA|isbn=1444342215|page=contents|edition=1. publ.}}</ref>

It is mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Problem of Thor Bridge' and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and 1931 essay, "The Spike."

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091026135454/http://www.geocities.com/helenvict0r/VicPeriod.html Victorian Periodicals]

Category:1842 establishments in the United Kingdom Category:1940 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Category:Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Magazines established in 1843 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1940