''Honey'' was a monthly magazine for young women in the

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which

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launched in April 1960. Audrey Slaughter (later wife of

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and stepmother of

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) founded it, with Jean McKinley as editor. Honey is regarded as having established the

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sector in the UK. At its height, ''Honey'' sold about 250,000 copies a month. Staff on ''Honey'' included

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and Catherine Bennett.

Publication history

A cover tagline, introduced in October 1960, read "For the teens and twenties"; by 1962 this had become "Young, gay and get-ahead." In 1964, ''Honey'' absorbed its fellow magazine ''Woman & Beauty''. Sales slid in the 1980s; in 1986,

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(which had been formed by the merger of several companies, including Fleetway), installed editor

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to give it a new direction. Internal dissension and a continued lack of sales, however, forced IPC in September 1986 to merge Honey with another teen magazine, '' 19''. (''19'' lasted until 2004.)"Women's monthly magazines: ''19'' to ''Cosmopolitan'',"
magforum. Retrieved Jan. 14, 2021.

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