Category:Little Folks

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Title: Little Folks

Editor: Bonavia Hunt (with Clara Mateaux in effective charge, 1871-1875), George Weatherly (1875-1880), Ernest Foster (1880-1894), Sam H. Hamer (1894+), and Christine Chandler (sub-editor c. 1919)

Publisher: Cassell and Co Ltd

Little Folks was a very successful children’s magazine that was published from 1871-1933. Part of the magazine’s success was due to its wide audience. Little Folks aimed to please boys and girls of all ages, social status, and religious affiliations.[1] It published stories, essays, games, puzzles, songs, and other amusements. The magazine also included articles that instructed readers in the hands-on construction of technology, such as telephones and microscopes, and in the making of homemade crafts. Reader participation was encouraged through magazine sponsored competitions. Little Folks also included a great deal of reader contributed material.

Pity for suffering was a recurring theme in Little Folks throughout its lifetime.[2] Little Folks fostered sympathy in its readers “not only for abused and over-worked children but for animals”.[3] It published numerous stories about a main character’s interaction with an animal, and also published informational pieces on animals. Although Little Folks had a sound moral tone, it was remarkable for being non-sectarian and “less didactic, less obtrusively pious, less ‘goody-goody’, than the rival publications.”[4]

Little Folks was published in monthly parts that were subsequently compiled into half-yearly volumes. The publisher, Cassell and Co Ltd, was an experienced periodical publisher. Notable contributors to the periodical were Walter Crane, Juliana Horatia Ewing, George Manville Fenn, Arnold Forster, (Mrs.) Molesworth, and Evelyn Everett Green [5].

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Submitted by: Scott, Megan: section 1, Winter 2009

Articles in category "Little Folks"

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