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Woman’s Weekly May 1960 Part 4

womans weeklyI recently acquired from the internet an old copy of Woman’s Weekly for 14 May 1960 and I thought it would be interesting to look and see what was inside and to see how different life was in those far off days and also how different (or similar) magazines were then.

We are now out of the magazine start pages and into the horoscope and then on to the main articles which form the bulk of the magazine.

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Woman’s Weekly May 1960 Part 3

womans weeklyI recently acquired from the internet an old copy of Woman’s Weekly for 14 May 1960 and I thought it would be interesting to look and see what was inside and to see how different life was in those far off days and also how different (or similar) magazines were then.

As I said last week, the next item is a short story. In fact, this is a long story published in episodes each issue by the magazine and is ‘The Fair Prisoner’ by Iris Bromige.

It’s an excellent story from the instalment that I have here and further research reveals that Iris Bromige is an author of some note, born in 1910 although whether she is still with us, I am not sure.

She wrote romance books aimed at women and this is a serialised version of what appears to be a book published by Hodder and Stoughton as ‘Fair Prisoner’ in 1960 so the book was probably serialised in this magazine and then published. The book was also reprinted by MacMillan in 1969.

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