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Daisy Bacon
Daisy Bacon (May 23, 1898 – March 1, 1986) was an American Pulp magazine, pulp fiction magazine editor and writer, best known as the editor of ''Love Story Magazine'' from 1928 to 1947. Early life Daisy Bacon was born in Union City, Pennsylvania. One of her great-uncles, Dr. Almon C. Bacon, was the founder of Bacone College in Oklahoma.Adelaide Kerr"Tough Editor: Daisy Bacon Brings Love to the Lonesome"''Portsmouth Daily Times'' (July 10, 1941): 6. via Newspapers.com Career Daisy Bacon started working in publishing at Street & Smith as an advice columnist, before becoming editor of several of their pulp magazines. She began editing ''Love Story'' in 1928, and stayed in that position until the magazine's run ended in 1947. "In her pages, she offers to the average woman – not a flight from actual life — but a heightened reality," explained one profile in 1942, noting that the magazine's circulation was between two and three million readers a month. She also edited ''Smart Love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Successors of pulps include paperback books, digest magazines, and men's adventure magazines. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Story Magazine
''Love Story Magazine'' was an American romantic fiction pulp magazine, published from 1921 to 1947.Doug Ellis, John Locke, and John Gunnison, ''The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps''.Silver Spring, MD : Adventure House, 2000. (pp. 153-4) It was one of the best selling magazines of Street & Smith. The magazine's circulation was 100,000 in 1922, and 600,000 by 1932.Love Story Magazine Newsstand: 1925, Retrieved 3 June 2015 The magazine's first issue was released in May 1921 as a quarterly. It became a semi-monthly by August, and a weekly in 1922. When '' Smith's Magazine'' folded in early 1922, its female audience was merged into the new publication. |
