The Young Elizabethan

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'''''The Young Elizabethan''''' was a British children's [[literary magazine]] of the 20th century.

==History and profile== The magazine was founded in 1948 as ''Collins Magazine for Boys & Girls''.<ref name=web>{{cite book|author=Simon Webb|title=The Best Days of Our Lives: School Life in Post-War Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J4o7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT142|accessdate=16 February 2017|date=1 February 2013|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7524-8936-0|page=142}}</ref> It was first published in Canada due to limitations of paper use in the United Kingdom.<ref name="ale">{{cite book|author=Alec Ellis|title=A History of Children's Reading and Literature: The Commonwealth and International Library: Library and Technical Information Division|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yRSoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA202|accessdate=16 February 2017|date=16 May 2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4831-3814-5|page=202}}</ref> Production in Britain became possible in 1950.<ref name=ale/> In 1953, two weeks before the [[coronation of Queen Elizabeth II|coronation]] of [[Elizabeth II]], the magazine changed its name to ''The Young Elizabethan'' to honour the new queen.<ref name="iro">{{cite book|author=Irene Morra|title=The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=enJ1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT147|accessdate=16 February 2017|date=30 September 2016|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-0-85772-867-8|page=147}}</ref> In 1958 it changed again to ''The Elizabethan'' ({{ISSN|0013-6255}}).<ref name=iro/>

''The Young Elizabethan'' generally serialised novels and also contained short stories, book reviews, poems, puzzles, and drawings. It was targeted at [[Grammar schools in the United Kingdom|grammar school]] students.<ref name=web/> It ceased publication in 1973.

One of the magazine's editors was [[Kaye Webb]], from January 1955 to January 1958.

==References== {{Reflist}} *[[Humphrey Carpenter]] and Mari Prichard (1984). ''The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-19-211582-9}}) s.v. "Young Elizabethan".

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