Editorial Policy

The Landlady is an independent editorial publication. It is not affiliated with any property company, letting agency, or campaigning organisation, and it does not publish sponsored articles. Its purpose is to examine the figure of the landlady in fiction, media, property ownership, and the culture of renting and home.

Articles are commissioned and edited around the magazine's three permanent rubriques: Fiction and Media, Women and Property, and Boarding House History. Each published piece carries a rubrique code and a sequential number, which allows readers, researchers, and correspondents to identify it without ambiguity.

The magazine works from published and archival sources, including novels, films, television, newspapers, memoirs, and historical records. Writers are expected to distinguish between fiction, historical evidence, and editorial argument, and to name their sources where a factual claim is made. The Landlady does not claim first hand testing, and it does not present invented staff, addresses, or credentials.

Images published by The Landlady are illustrative AI generated images. They are used to evoke a subject or mood and are not documentary photographs of real people, buildings, or events.

Corrections are handled through the contact page. A request should identify the article by its rubrique code and number, quote the passage at issue, and supply checkable evidence. Where an error is established, the magazine will correct the article and note the change. Interpretive disagreement is not treated as factual error, but substantive challenge to an argument is welcome and may be published as a response.