''The Schoolgirl'' was a British weekly

story paper A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers. Also known in Britain as "boys' weeklies", story papers were phenomenally popular ...

aimed at girls. Published by

Amalgamated Press The Amalgamated Press (AP) was a British newspaper and magazine publishing company founded by journalist and entrepreneur Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922) in 1901, gathering his many publishing ventures together under one banner. At one point the ...

(AP), ''The Schoolgirl'' ran in two series, the first from 1922 to 1923, and the second (essentially continuing a sister publication) from 1929 to 1940. Most stories in ''The Schoolgirl'' centred on the girls and staff of Cliff House School, a fictional establishment in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, on a clifftop overlooking the sea. Cliff House was the sister school of Greyfriars, where

Billy Bunter William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, a fictional English public school in Kent, originally published in the boys' weekly ...

was educated, and had its own equivalent, his sister

Bessie Bunter Elizabeth Gertrude Bunter, better known as Bessie Bunter, is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton, who also created her more famous brother Billy Bunter. History Billy Bunter was a central character in the Greyfriars School stories ...

. The Cliff House School was introduced in the Amalgamated Press boys' story paper ''

The Magnet ''The Magnet'' was a British weekly boys' story paper published by Amalgamated Press. It ran from 1908 to 1940, publishing a total of 1,683 issues. Each issue cost a halfpenny and contained a long school story about the boys of Greyfriars Sch ...

'' in 1909. Bessie Bunter and Cliff House School stories had been a regular feature of the first girls' story paper, ''

The School Friend ''School Friend'' was the name of two different British weekly publications marketed toward girls, both of which were pioneering in their respective categories. The first ''School Friend'', published from 1919 to 1929, was the first story paper ...

'', beginning in 1919 and continuing through 1929.

Publication history

The first series of ''The Schoolgirl'' was launched on 21 February 1922, and the publication was 28 pages long. It was subsequently reduced to 24 pages. The first series ended on 13 March 1923. ''The Schoolgirl'' was revived on 3 August 1929, picking up where ''The School Friend'' had left off. (''The School Friend'' was canceled with the 27th July 1929 issue, with ''The Schoolgirl'' launching exactly one week later.) In May 1936, the fellow AP girls' story paper '' Schoolgirls' Own'' (launched in 1921) was merged into ''The Schoolgirl''. ''The Schoolgirl'' continued until 18 May 1940, when paper rationing during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

resulted in its merger with the sister story paper '' Girls' Crystal''.

Content

The Friardale Website described ''The Schoolgirl'' thusly:

References

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