The Sunday Magazine (magazine)
The Sunday Magazine (also known as The Sunday Magazine for Family Reading) was a London magazine published by Alexander Strahan from 1864 until 1905.[1] It belonged to the genre of "Sunday reading" periodicals, intended to provide religiously-inspired entertainment for families to read on Sundays. It contained a mixture of non-fiction, verse, short stories, and serialized novels, as well as featuring black and white woodcut illustrations by artists such as Robert Barnes, Edward Hughes, and George Pinwell.[1]
 Example title page from an 1867 annual volume of The Sunday Magazine, featuring the serialized novel The Seaboard Parish by George MacDonald | |
| Publisher | Alexander Strahan |
|---|---|
| First issue | 1864 |
| Final issue | 1905 |
| Based in | London |
| OCLC | 1779278 |
It was initially edited by Scottish minister Thomas Guthrie. Due to declining health, Guthrie had retired from ministry in 1864 in favour of literary efforts, and he contributed a significant amount of writing to the magazine during his tenure as editor.[2]
In May 1906, the magazine was merged with Good Words, another religious periodical published by Strahan, resulting in the title Good Words and Sunday Magazine.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Cooke, Simon (2 April 2013). "The Sunday Magazine". The Victorian Web.
- ^ Alexander, Lindsay (1875). "Obituary Notes of the Rev. Dr Guthrie". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 8: 273–278. doi:10.1017/S0370164600029576.
- ^ Broks, Peter (1997). Media Science before the Great War. Springer. pp. 137–138. ISBN 9781349250431.