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All the Year Around

All the Year Round was a weekly literary journal edited by the well-known writer Charles Dickens and his son in the late 1800s. All the Year Round began publishing in 1859, following on Dickens' earlier journal, "Household Words". Along with the weekly issues, it published a special Christmas number annualy. A second series began in 1868, and a third series in 1889, with the volume numbers restarting at 1 both times. After Dickens' death in 1870, his son, Charles Dickens Jr., took on editorship. The journal ran until 1895, and was then absorbed into the second incarnation of "Household Words". -- Description provided by the Online Books Page

The Argosy

The Argosy was "a magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems", published in London in the late 19th century. The first issue of The Argosy appeared in 1865. The last appeared in 1901. -- Description from the Online Books Page

The Art Journal

The Art Journal was a Victorian-era fine arts magazine published in London, for most of its run by J. S. Virtue and Co.. It also had an American edition during part of its run. The Art Journal began in 1839 as The Art-Union. It was renamed the Art Journal about in 1849, after Virtue took it over. An American edition with very similar but not identical contents was published by D. Appleton and Co. starting in 1875. The American edition was taken over by Patterson and Neilson around 1881, and ceased publication in 1887. The original London edition continued until 1912. -- Description from the Online Books Page

The Athenaeum: a Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama

Published 1828-1921.

Belgravia: a London Magazine

Belgravia: A London Magazine was a British literary magazine, published in the late 19th century, and edited for much of its run by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Belgravia: A London Magazine began publication with the November 1866 issue. The magazine ceased publication in 1899. -- Description from the Online Books Page

Bentley’s Miscellany

Published 1837 – 1868.

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine was a monthly magazine published in Edinburgh, Scotland, and later in London, in the 19th and 20th century. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine began publication with the April 1817 issue. It ceased publication under its original name at the end of 1905, when the magazine, moving to London, became known simply as Blackwood's Magazine. The London incarnation ceased publication in 1980. -- Description from the Online Books Page

Cornhill Magazine

The Cornhill Magazine was a Victorian magazine and literary journal published in London from 1860 to 1975. The most important magazine of the latter part of the nineteenth century was undoubtedly the Cornhill, founded in 1860 by the publisher George Smith. Aiming to combine the critical view and the serial novel, he started with works by Thackeray and Trollope and made Thackeray the first editor. -- Description from the Online Books Page

Dickens Journals Online

Includes digitalized, searchable copies of Household Words, Household Narrative, and All the Year Round, all journals that Dickens edited.

The Examiner

Leigh Hunt and his brother John founded the Examiner in 1808 as a weekly paper of Liberal orientation, especially evident in its "Reviews," to which young Charles Dickens made a significant number of contributions (many of which were later published in Miscellaneous Papers, Plays, and Poems, in 1908). -- Description from Victorian Web

Fun

Published from 1861 to about 1901. This publication includes lots of images.

Good Words

The periodical press of the 1860s was dominated by three illustrated magazines: The Cornhill Magazine, Once a Week, and Good Words. Good Words also contained miscellaneous literature, but was primarily intended as an ‘improving publication’ incorporating fine visual material. -- Description from Victorian Web

Household Words

“Adorned with a combative motto from Shakespeare’s Henry V (‘Familiar in their Mouths as HOUSEHOLD WORDS’), Charles Dickens’s two-penny weekly magazine of original short fiction and crusading social journalism was launched to widespread publicity on 30 March 1850. Its sub-editor was W. H Wills, a former assistant editor of Chambers’s Journal, to which the new publication was typographically similar: two columns of small type on relatively thin, acidic paper (quad crown 12mo), no advertisements or illustrations, and the legend ‘Conducted by Charles Dickens’ as a running header on every spread of its 24 pages. Household Words was nevertheless something of a hybrid, available in 9d. monthly numbers with wrappers and handsome bi-annual volumes, aimed at affluent middle-class families and people of influence, no less than at working-class readers interested in ‘trading up.’” -- Description from Dickens Journals Online

Illustrated London News

The creator of the Illustrated London News, Herbert Ingram, announced that his magazine's concern would be "with the English poor" and that the "three essential elements of discussion with us will be the poor laws, the factory laws, and the working of the mining system." -- Description from Victorian Web

The London Journal

This journal serialized Lady Audley’s Secret from 21 March 1863 through 15 August 1863. See the link below for a few of these volumes with installments of Lady Audley’s Secret.

London Society

London Society — or to give it its full title, London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation — was one of the most popular journals of its time. Presented as an illustrated magazine, it was set up in 1862 and continued until 1898. -- Description from Victorian Web

McClure’s Magazine

An American periodical that serialized Kipling’s Kim from Dec 1900- Oct 1901

Once a Week

Once a Week was the first and most influential periodical of its type. Presented as an ‘illustrated miscellany’, which would act as an alternative and rival to Dickens’s All the Year Round, it was set up by Bradbury and Evans as a pictorial magazine that would unite wood-engravings with a variety of written texts. Sold at 3d, Once a Week was aimed at a large middle-class audience; combining fiction with informational pieces, poetry, history, current affairs and other miscellanea while always avoiding the controversial or esoteric, its approach was distinctly middle-brow. Its principal asset was in the form of its remarkable illustrations; All the Year Round was ‘blind’, and Bradbury and Evans regarded the ‘cuts’ in their magazine as its prime selling point. -- Description from Victorian Web

Punch

Punch, or the London Charivari , the famous illustrated magazine of humour, was founded by journalists Henry Mayhew (1812-87), Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-68), and Mark Lemon (1809-7) in 1841 (first number published on 17 July). At first, a strongly radical journal, it gradually mellowed in outlook over the 1850s. -- Description from Victorian Web

Quarterly Review

Began publication in 1809.

The Quiver: an Illustrated Magazine for Sunday & General Reading

The Quiver (1861–1926) was established in 1861 by John Cassell (1817–65), a self-made man and proponent of Evangelicalism and the Temperance Movement. Cassell’s earlier periodicals were intended for the labouring poor, and The Quiver, though offered at a middle-class rather than a proletarian audience, was essentially another piece of didacticism. -- Description from Victorian Web

Robin Goodfellow

This publication serialized the first 18 chapters of Lady Audley’s Secret from July-September of 1861. The Magazine folded after September, and Braddon had to find a different magazine to publish her work (See Sixpenny Magazine and The London Journal)

The Sixpenny Magazine

Lady Audley’s Secret was serialized in this magazine from January through December of 1862. The following link contains a few of the installments:

The Sunday Magazine

The Sunday Magazine was another of Alexander Strahan’s Evangelical journals and was intended as a complement to Good Words and The Argosy. Established in 1864 and published until 1905, it contains the usual blend of moralizing poems and articles about self-improvement and the exercise of virtue; it also features miscellaneous literature in the form of short stories and serialized novels. -- Description from Victorian Web