''The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information & Amusement'' (1843–1940) was a weekly story paper launched by George Biggs in 1842, and re-established in May 1843 with

James Elishama Smith James Elishama Smith, often called Shepherd Smith (1801, Glasgow – 1857, Glasgow) was a British journalist and religious writer. Smith studied at Glasgow University. Hearing Edward Irving preach in 1828, he became a millenarian and associated ...

and mechanised printing. By 1855 it had a circulation of 300,000. Initially a penny weekly, the ''Family Herald'' later sold at 2d. Contributors included

James George Stuart Burges Bohn James George Stuart Burges Bohn (20 December 1803, London – 4 January 1880, Peckham) was a British bookseller and bibliographer. Family Bohn was son of John Bohn, a London bookseller, who died on 13 October 1843, in his eighty-sixth year. The ...

, Charlotte Mary Brame (1836–84), Bertha Henry Buxton, William Carpenter,

James Hain Friswell James Hain Friswell (8 May 1825 – 12 March 1878) was an English essayist and novelist. He was born at Newport, Shropshire, son of William Friswell, of 93 Wimpole Street, London, attorney-at-law, and educated at Apsley School, near Woburn, B ...

, Fanny Aikin Kortright (1821–1900),

Watts Phillips Watts Phillips (16 November 1825 – 2 December 1874) was an English illustrator, novelist and playwright best known for his play ''The Dead Heart'', which served as a model for Charles Dickens' ''A Tale of Two Cities''. In a memoir, his sister E ...

(1825–74),

Frederick William Robinson Frederick William Robinson (23 December 1830 – 6 December 1901) was an English novelist, magazine editor and drama critic. Life Robinson was born in Spitalfields in 1830, the second son of William Robinson of Acre Lane, Brixton, who owned much ...

(1830–1901),

Nina Moore Jamieson Nina 'Pat' Moore Jamieson (29 April 1885 – 6 November 1932), was an Irish born Canadian teacher, journalist, poet and lecturer. Life She was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1885. Her parents William Francis Moore and Georgette Robinson were Ca ...

(1885-1932),

Henrietta Stannard Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (née Palmer; 1856–1911) writing under the pseudonym of John Strange Winter, was a British novelist. She was founding president of the Writers' Club in 1892, and president of the Society of Women Journalists in ...

(1856–1911),

Annie Tinsley Annie Tinsley, born Annie Turner (11 January 1808 – 20 January 1885), was a British novelist and poet. She used the name Mrs Charles Tinsley. Life Tinsley was born in Preston in 1808. She claimed to have read "the classics" at an early age an ...

(1808–85) and

Mary Cecil Hay Mary Cecil Hay (10 January 1839 – 24 July 1886) was a British novelist. Her work was often serialised and appeared in periodicals and weeklies in the UK, America and Australia. Background and early influences Mary Hay was born in Shrewsbury to ...

. It is mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes story ‘ ‘The Problem of Thor Bridge’ ‘.

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