Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. The first edition was dated 4 February 1832,[1] and priced at one penny. Topics included history, religion, language, and science. William was soon joined as joint editor by his brother Robert, who wrote many of the articles for the early issues, and within a few years the journal had a circulation of 84,000.[2] In 1854 the title was changed to Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts,[3] and changed again to Chambers's Journal at the end of 1897.
The journal was produced in Edinburgh until late into the 1850s, by which time the author James Payn had taken over as editor, and production was moved to London. Serialised fiction from major authors, including Payn himself, became one of the journal's major attractions following his arrival. The journal continued to be published until 1956.[4]
References
- Footnotes
- ^ Hancher, Michael, British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early Nineteenth Century 1831–1840, University of Minnesota, http://mh.cla.umn.edu/britper4.html, retrieved 20 December 2009
- ^ About us, Chambers Harrap Publishers, http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/about/index.shtml, retrieved 20 December 2009
- ^ Clemm 2008, p. 74
- ^ Baker & Womack 2002, pp. 22–23
- Bibliography
- Baker, William; Womack, Kenneth (2002), A Companion to the Victorian Novel, Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0313314070
- Clemm, Sabine (2008), Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood: Mapping the World in Household Words, Routledge, ISBN 978-0415958462
- Thomas, Sue (1989), Indexes to Fiction in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, later Chambers's Journal, 3rd to 6th Series of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 1854-1910, Victorian Fiction Research Guides No. l7., Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland
External links
Categories:
- Publications established in 1832
- Publications disestablished in 1956
- Weekly magazines
- Scottish magazines
- Culture in Edinburgh
- 1832 in Scotland
- History of Edinburgh
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