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Magazine
Woman's Weekly
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/71/Woman_Weekly_UK_cover_28_Feb_2012.jpg/220px-Woman_Weekly_UK_cover_28_Feb_2012.jpg) 28 February 2012 cover of
Woman's Weekly
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Editor
| Geoffrey Palmer
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Categories
| Mature women's weekly magazine
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Frequency
| Weekly (Wednesday)
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Circulation
| 236,429 (ABC Jun ? Dec 2018)
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Print and digital editions.
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Founded
| 1911
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Company
| Future plc
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Country
| UK
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Based in
| London
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Language
| English
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Website
| www
.womansweekly
.com
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ISSN
| 0043-7417
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Woman's Weekly
is a British
women's magazine
published by
Future plc
and edited by Geoffrey Palmer. On sale every Wednesday,
Woman's Weekly
sells over 240,000 copies per week.
Background
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Launched in 1911 by
Amalgamated Press
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Woman's Weekly
has been a successful magazine title for over 100 years.
Woman's Weekly
focuses on the home, family and lives of grown-up women, providing them with health advice and hints on how to feel good at any age. Featuring beauty and fashion advice which is age-relevant, it aims to give women the confidence to experiment by adapting the latest trends to suit them.
Woman's Weekly
aims to inspire readers to be creative with cookery, home, gardening and craft ideas. Each week also features a fiction story and generally upbeat real-life stories.
Woman's Weekly
says it is "the grown-up woman's guide to modern living".
On 4 November 2011 the magazine celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special exact facsimile re-publication of the first edition.
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Discussing the longevity of the magazine, on the
BBC Radio 4
's
Today programme
, then editor Diane Kenwood and social historian Dr Clare Rose explained that the magazine had been launched in 1911 to appeal to the growing class of office-employed women who sought a magazine for reading on their daily commute by train, tram and bus.
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Payment terms
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In June 2018 writer Tara Westgate alleged that
Woman's Weekly
had cut its payment for short stories by one third (from £150 per 2,000 word story to £100) and required all rights including moral rights (ie the right to be identified as the author of the story) in return for this payment.
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Carol Bevitt wrote an article on the subject for
Writing
magazine in the 2 August issue,
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while
Joanne Harris
blogged and Tweeted on the story.
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