# Family Herald

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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](/source/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](/source/James_George_Stuart_Burges_Bohn), [Charlotte Mary Brame](/source/Charlotte_Mary_Brame) (1836–84), [Bertha Henry Buxton](/source/Bertha_Henry_Buxton), [William Carpenter](/source/William_Carpenter_(1797%E2%80%931874)), [James Hain Friswell](/source/James_Hain_Friswell), [Fanny Aikin Kortright](/source/Fanny_Aikin_Kortright) (1821–1900), [Watts Phillips](/source/Watts_Phillips) (1825–74), [Frederick William Robinson](/source/Frederick_William_Robinson) (1830–1901), [Nina Moore Jamieson](/source/Nina_Moore_Jamieson) (1885-1932), [Henrietta Stannard](/source/Henrietta_Stannard) (1856–1911), [Annie Tinsley](/source/Annie_Tinsley) (1808–85)<ref>[ODNB](/source/ODNB) entry for each listed contributor</ref> and [Mary Cecil Hay](/source/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](/source/The_Problem_of_Thor_Bridge)' and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and 1931 essay, "The Spike."

==References==
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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
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