Melissa Homestead
2006-06-09 18:23:17 UTC
Dear SHARP-ists,
I am trying to locate a complete or substantial run of the magazine _Every
Week_, published from 1915 through 1918. I have tried all of the usual
strategies for locating periodical holdings without success -- WorldCat,
the Union List of Serials, etc. The magazine was a 3 cent Monday weekly
which was also published as _Associated Sunday Magazine_ as a Sunday
newspaper magazine supplement. _Associated Sunday Magazine_ precedes
_Every Week_, but my focus is the years 1915 through 1918, when Edith
Lewis was an editor at the dual-identity magazine.
It is pretty clear that academic and research libraries did not collect
the magazine during its years of publication -- even the New York Public
Library has only a fragmentary run of the first volume. The magazine
featured typical New Women cover art by prominent illustrators, so it is
sought after by collectors. Has anyone worked with similar magazines, and
do you have tips about how to find them (other than trying to by it
issue-by-isse on E-bay -- which would get quite expensive for a weekly!)?
The contents of the magazine are my primary interest, although it would be
interesting to see the covers intact with the printed contents.
Thanks in advance for any advice or tips you can offer, and apologies for
cross-posting. Feel free to reply either on or off list.
Melissa J. Homestead
Associate Professor of English
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
***@unl.edu
I am trying to locate a complete or substantial run of the magazine _Every
Week_, published from 1915 through 1918. I have tried all of the usual
strategies for locating periodical holdings without success -- WorldCat,
the Union List of Serials, etc. The magazine was a 3 cent Monday weekly
which was also published as _Associated Sunday Magazine_ as a Sunday
newspaper magazine supplement. _Associated Sunday Magazine_ precedes
_Every Week_, but my focus is the years 1915 through 1918, when Edith
Lewis was an editor at the dual-identity magazine.
It is pretty clear that academic and research libraries did not collect
the magazine during its years of publication -- even the New York Public
Library has only a fragmentary run of the first volume. The magazine
featured typical New Women cover art by prominent illustrators, so it is
sought after by collectors. Has anyone worked with similar magazines, and
do you have tips about how to find them (other than trying to by it
issue-by-isse on E-bay -- which would get quite expensive for a weekly!)?
The contents of the magazine are my primary interest, although it would be
interesting to see the covers intact with the printed contents.
Thanks in advance for any advice or tips you can offer, and apologies for
cross-posting. Feel free to reply either on or off list.
Melissa J. Homestead
Associate Professor of English
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
***@unl.edu