Young England: A Illustrated Magazine for Boys Throughout the English-Speaking World was a British

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

 story paper

Story paper

*This article is about British Story papers. For the U.S. version, see Dime novel.A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers...

 aimed at a similar audience to the Boy's Own Paper

Boy's Own Paper

The Boy's Own Paper was a British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys, published from 1879 to 1967.-Publishing history:The idea for the publication was first raised in 1878 by the Religious Tract Society as a means to encourage younger children to read and also instil Christian morals...

, It was published from 1880 until 1937.

Publishing history

The paper was published by the London Sunday School Union and was a continuation of an earlier paper Kind Words for Boys and Girls. The first issue went on sale on January 3, 1880. The paper began as a weekly but became a monthly and finally an annual publication.

Contents

The paper featured adventure, school and historical stories; articles on many topics such as science, natural history, sports, hobbies and crafts; as well as verse, competitions and puzzles.

Notable contributors

Among its contributors were Fenton Ash, Harold Avery

Harold Avery

Harold Avery was an English author of children's literature.Born in Redditch, Worcestershire, England. His biography states that in 1879, Avery's family left England for Australia. During transit, his passenger ship was allegedly hijacked by Malay pirates while transversing the Strait of Malacca...

, R. M. Ballantyne, T. C. Bridges, Frank T. Bullen

Frank Thomas Bullen

Frank Thomas Bullen , British author and novelist, was born of poor parents in Paddington, London, on 5 April 1857, and was educated for a few years at a dame school and Westbourne school, Paddington. At the age of 9 he left school and took up work as an errand boy. In 1869 he went to sea and...

, W. E. Cule

W. E. Cule

William Edward Cule was a British author of children's books and several books for adults on Christian themes. In all, he wrote some thirty books encompassing a number of popular genres - public school stories, adventure yarns, fairy tales, novels and Christian allegories and fable...

, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Henty Frith, Ross Harvey, G. A. Henty

G. A. Henty

George Alfred Henty , was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include Out on the Pampas , The Young Buglers , With Clive in India and Wulf the Saxon .-Biography:G.A...

, Ascott R. Hope, W. H. G. Kingston

William Henry Giles Kingston

William Henry Giles Kingston , writer of tales for boys, was born in London, but spent much of his youth in Oporto, where his father was a merchant.-Popularity:His first book, The Circassian Chief, appeared in 1844...

, David Ker, J. P. Lamb, Robert Leighton, Percy Longhurst, George Manville Fenn

George Manville Fenn

George Manville Fenn was an English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist.-Life and works:...

, Rosa Mulholland

Rosa Mulholland

Rosa Mulholland was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright.-Life:She was born in Belfast, the daughter of Dr. Joseph Stevenson Mulholland of Newry. She spent some years in a remote mountainous part of the West of Ireland after the death of her father. Her first novel was Dumana , under the...

, F. St. Mars, Dr William Gordon Stables

William Gordon Stables

William Gordon Stables MD, CM. RN was a Scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal Navy and a prolific author of adventure fiction, primarily for boys.- Life and works :...

, Percy F. Westerman

Percy F. Westerman

Percy Francis Westerman was a prolific author of children's literature, many of his books adventures with military themes.-Biography:...

, Fred Whishaw

Fred Whishaw

Frederick James Whishaw was a Russian-born British novelist, historian, poet and musician. A popular author of children's fiction at the turn of the century, he published over forty volumes of his work between 1884 and 1914....

and others.

List of editors

• Benjamin Clarke (1880 - 1889)
• Thomas Archer (1889 - 1894)
• Horace George Groser (c. 1920s)

Other papers of similar title

The annual Young Australia : An Illustrated Magazine for Boys Throughout the English-speaking World comprised the twelve monthly issues of Young England bound and issued with a new title for colonial sale.