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Mary Glasgow is a specialist language publisher based in central London. Mary Glasgow Magazines’ team of writers, editors and designers publish magazines, books, audio and a website aimed at primary and secondary school students learning languages.

Since its inception in 1957 the company went on to develop the current range of 16 magazines – for learners of English, French, German, and Spanish. During her magazine career, Mary Glasow and an American colleague, M.R.Robinson, shared many ideas on the value of magazines written and designed for teenage students. Mr. Robinson had launched his company, Scholastic Corporation, in 1920 with the publication of a magazine for students. Mary Glasgow Magazines is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scholastic Corporation, which has continued to publish magazines but has grown into a global publisher and distributor of children’s books. Mary Glasgow Magazines also publishes a series of Readers and Resource Books for teachers of English as a foreign language and in Spanish.

Company History
Mary Glasgow Magazines was established as a publishing company on January 1st 1957 and is named after the company founder, Mary Glasgow.

Mary Glasgow Biography
Mary Glasgow started her career as a teacher of French during the 1950’s, before becoming a school inspector. Her own experience of foreign language textbooks and the lack of appeal she saw there lead Glasgow to publish a series of French magazines aimed at teenage students. In her autobiography she describes the evolution of her language teaching method: "My suggestion was that the whole apparatus of grammar be abandoned and replaced by a simple course in conversation, greetings, courtesy phrases... with French songs, and cross references to cookery, sport, geography, against a background of railway posters and adult magazines dealing with sport and fashion"

Subjects were closely aligned with the interests of teenage readers and covered familiar topics such as music and sport. }}

Mary Glasgow retired in the 1970s, having purchased a small château in France. She was honoured with the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by Charles de Gaulle. Mary passed away in 1983.

Selected List of Publications
English Magazines

Kids News

CLICK

CROWN

TEAM

CLUB

CURRENT

German Magazines

DAS RAD

SCHUSS

French Magazines

Allons-y!

Bonjour

Ca-Va?

Chez Nous

Spanish Magazines

¿QUÉ TAL?

Ahora

El Sol

Mary Glasgow Language Trust
In 1978 Mary Glasgow founded the Mary Glasgow Language Trust with the aim of providing material support to enterprising language teachers. The trust no longer has any connection at with Mary Glasgow Publications.