The People's Friend

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The People's Friend
First edition The Peoples Friend 1869.jpg
First edition (1869)
EditorAngela Gilchrist
Frequencyweekly
Total circulation
(June 2013)
297,344 [1]
Year founded1869
First issue13 January 1869 (1869-01-13)
Company D. C. Thomson & Co.
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Website www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk

The People's Friend is a British weekly magazine founded by John Leng on 13 January 1869 [2] as an offshoot of The People's Journal [3] and currently published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Its tagline is "The famous story magazine". [4] It was originally a monthly magazine but became a weekly magazine in 1870, and had its first illustrated cover on 11 May 1946. [2]

Annie S. Swan wrote for the magazine. [5] The current editor is Angela Gilchrist. [2]

The magazine is principally aimed at older women. [6] Each issue contains at least seven self-contained short stories and two serials (frequently more), a craft project (usually knitting or sewing) and various factual articles, one of which is a piece on a particular town. Pets, family and traditions are also common themes. During World War 1, the focus of the magazine shifted to women. [3]

The magazine holds an annual craft competition called "The Love Darg" (a Scots term for a day's work done without asking payment) in which readers are asked to make toys and garments. After judging, the entries are distributed to charities. [7]

The magazine's geographical location in Dundee is reflected in a general bias toward Scottish subjects. The main front cover image is invariably a painting of a picturesque location somewhere in Britain or Ireland, and readers can also buy prints of these pictures. The paintings are made by a variety of artists but are credited to the collective pseudonym J. Campbell Kerr, which is also used for the "Round Britain" feature within the magazine. [6] [8]

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References

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