Answers (periodical)

Cover page of an issue of Answers from July 12, 1890.
An issue from April 9, 1910.

Answers was a British weekly[1] paper founded in 1888 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe). Originally titled Answers to Correspondents, before being shortened soon after, it initially consisted largely of answers to reader-submitted questions,[1] along with articles on miscellaneous topics, jokes, and serialized literature. Its content was similar to and inspired by Tit-Bits (which carried a section called 'Answers to Correspondents'),[2][3] a popular British weekly founded in 1881 which appealed to a wide audience of newly literate Britons.

It was the first periodical founded by Northcliffe (who was 23 years old at the time of its founding), who would go on to become a publishing magnate, later founding and acquiring a number of highly successful and influential periodicals, including the Daily Mail.[4] Northcliffe employed his brother, Harold Harmsworth, as business manager for the paper.[4]

Answers was twelve pages in length, and was priced at 1d each.[1]

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