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CC033 - Edition 1,500
Girl's Own
The first weekly number of the 'GIRLS OWN PAPER' appeared on January
3rd. 1880, price One Penny. The GOP formula, a mix of stories and
educational and improving articles, with 'Answers to Correspondents'
and occasional coloured plates, poetry and music, was a great success.
Quarto sized weekly magazines continued, but the magazine was also made
available bound into monthly parts; each monthly contained the weekly
magazines from the previous month. However 50 years later much had
changed and all sorts of names appeared on the cover 'GIRL'S OWN PAPER
AND WOMAN'S MAGAZINE', 'WOMAN'S MAGAZINE AND GIRL'S OWN PAPER', 'WOMAN'S
MAGAZINE' By October 1930, the two papers had gone their separate ways
with the 'Girls Own Annual' continuing publication under its original
title. By 1939, the contents had again become more serious, though not
more adult, as the GOP played its part in preparing young girls for the
horror of war. In December 1947 the name was changed again to 'GIRL'S
OWN PAPER AND HEIRESS': by 1951 it was called 'HEIRESS, incorporating
the GIRL'S OWN PAPER', and in 1956, after 76 years of continuous
publication, 'HEIRESS' closed down, and the name 'GIRL'S OWN PAPER' was
finally laid to rest. We show a front cover from the early 50's on our
Model T.
