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The Mirror

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The <em>Mirror</em>

The Mirrorwas a monthly magazine aimed at conservative middle-class women. Its content favoured royal tours, society weddings and romance and other genre fiction, an element that this 1944 cover attests to. 

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Reference: Mirror, May 1944 (S-L-1268-Cover)

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Ben Schrader, Magazines and periodicals – Popular magazines, 1920 to 1939, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/44379/the-mirror (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 6 March 2014, updated 1 April 2020.