Henty and the Boy's Own
Paper

Henty Contributions to the Boy's Own Paper

Henty contributed six pieces to the B.O.P., one autobiographical and five short stories, as
follows:

The Life of a Special CorrespondentVolume 18 1896

The Fetish HoleVolume 19 1897

Among Malay PiratesVolume 20 1898

Burton & SonVolume 21 1899

The B.O.P. Portrait GalleryVolume 21 (April) 1899

In the Hands of the Cave DwellersVolume 22 1900

Down a CrevasseSummer Number 1901

The Death of G. A. HentyVolume 25 (January) 1903

First issued on January 18th 1879, price one penny, the Boy's
Own Paper was a modest publication produced by the Religious
Tract Society (R.T.S.) in the earnest hope of counteracting the
lurid 'penny dreadfuls' of the day.

A dedicated team set to work to create a magazine which
parents and guardians would approve, schoolmasters and
ministers would recommend and boys themselves would buy,
read and enjoy. No easy task - but the result was a triumph.

Within five years the readership topped a quarter of a million. It
became and was to remain a British Institution. The Paper set a
high moral and religious tone and remained in circulation for
eighty-eight years until 1967. The Annual in its original form
was dropped in 1941 due to paper shortages but was re-
introduced by Purnell in 1964 and completed the Centenary,
the final volume published in 1978. In 1979 the annual was
replaced by a miscellany of short stories in library format.

The Boy's Own Annual - 1899

Partly adapted from Take A Cold Tub, Sir! The story of the Boy's Own
Paper by Jack Cox. Lutterworth 1982

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