Periodicals That Pay…
Three copies of 19th Century Publication Guidebook for Independent Writers
Ames, Eleanor M. [writing as Eleanor Kirk]. Periodicals that pay Contributors to Which is Added a List of Publishing Houses. Brooklyn, New York: [Privately printed], 1890.
12mo.; brown cloth; gilt lettering, black pictorial, and blindstamped design on covers; hinges partially cracked; previous ownership, “Rev. Frank H. Kasson/50 Brownfield St./Boston” in pencil on endpaper; general wear to extremities.
(with):
Another copy, as above, but spine almost entirely cracked; previous ownership “Mrs. Ernest N. Bagg/Republican office/Springfield, Mass./October 24th, 1890” in black on endpaper; heavily annotated by various hands, most making edits to the list of magazines; tipped onto the front endpaper is a sheet with a handwritten list of six magazines and their information; some soiling to covers; general wear to extremities.
Ownership inscription belongs to Amy Upham Bagg, a musician, singer, and writer for both “The Etude” and “The Musician” magazines. She was also the director of the music departments of Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa and Wehaton College in Illinois.
(with):
The Sixth 1895 edition; title page reset, pagination, binding ornamentation, and advertisements differ. In addition, “Sixth Edition 1895” stamped in small gilt letters to front; binding slightly rubbed.
Revised and enlarged edition(s). An unusual and practical nineteenth century guidebook by a woman author and editor, providing a reference to 19th century American magazines which accepted articles from budding or independent writers. The book presents a list of magazines arranged by subject and describes the particular interests of each magazine as well as telling the user how often the magazine is published, the editorial demands about article length, editor names, and publishers’ addresses. Subjects include fashion, household, juvenile, hygiene, and religion. Author Eleanor Ames also tells her readers what the magazines do not want in submissions and what they will not buy. An ad in the back of the book offers Ames’s services as reviewer and critic of manuscripts for books, plays, and short poems.
Eleanor M. Ames (1831-1908), who writes under the pseudonym “Eleanor Kirk,” was a published author and publisher of Eleanor Kirk’s Idea, a magazine for writers. The Idea, while its subject matter often addressed potential paths for budding writers, had the noble mission statement of aspiring to “bring people to a realization of their own power to conquer every obstacle which threatens their growth and comfort” (from ad in The Temple, 1897).
OCLC locates three copies of this 1890 edition, and ten copies combined for editions in 1892 and 1893; 1895 edition not in OCLC.
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