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women's magazines in 1950s

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Mossleybrow · 20/03/2021 10:56

I am looking at the 1950s for a course I am reaching on women in C20th. What magazines did your mother or grandmother read in the 1950s: Woman's Own, Woman, Woman's Realm ..or something else?

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YetAnotherSpartacus · 20/03/2021 11:19

There was a little one with abridged romances too. Awful thing.

Bodoni · 20/03/2021 11:16

My DM read She magazine - I particularly remember Nancy Spain. www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp59804/nancy-spain

YetAnotherSpartacus · 20/03/2021 11:11

I think it was Woman's Weekly, Woman's Own and People's Friend. They'd be passed around though and tattered by the time she got them, often with patterns and recipes cut out. I remember this from the 60s and 70s.

eddiemairswife · 20/03/2021 11:10

I used to love reading Woman when I went to visit my aunt, so when I was 13 I gave up having the Girls' Crystal delivered, and had Woman instead. This was in 1951.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/03/2021 11:04

(That was what my DM read, but perhaps also an answer to the PP)

ErrolTheDragon · 20/03/2021 11:04

Woman's Weekly.

DareIask · 20/03/2021 11:01

Or was it Woman's Weekly? 🧐

Maybe both

DareIask · 20/03/2021 11:00

Those, plus My Weekly

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