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Victorian Magazines Online

Here are some other places to find texts from Victorian periodicals, as well as information about Victorian periodical publishing.

Online Texts of Victorian Periodicals

All the Year Round
http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/ayr.html

Casebook: Jack the Ripper
http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/
Though the site is (obviously) focused on Jack the Ripper, I'm including it here because of the wealth of primary materials it offers, including many articles from magazines and newspapers not only about the Ripper case, but about conditions in Victorian London at the time.

Forget-Me-Not
http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/
Information about the 19th-century annual; unfortunately contains very little of its contents.

Internet Archive: The Strand
http://www.archive.org/
Scans of a number of issues of The Strand (single volumes rather than annuals)

Internet Library of Early Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals, including Annual Register, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine (Vols. 1-20, 1731-1750), Notes and Queries, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and The Builder.

The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
http://www.ncse.ac.uk/index.html
A free, online edition of six 19th-century periodicals and newspapers: The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature; The Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser; The Leader; The English Woman's Journal; The Tomahawk - A Saturday Journal of Satire; and The Publisher's Circular.

The Penny Magazine
http://www.history.rochester.edu/pennymag/
Twelve issues of an 1800's weekly magazine for the working class. (Text appears in a very small window!)

Voices from 19th-Century America
http://www.merrycoz.org/adults.htm
A number of excerpts of periodicals and writings in the 19th century US.

The Word on the Street
http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html
"The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions - all these and more are here."

Information About Victorian Periodicals

All the Year Round
http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/victorianweb/periodicals/ayr.html
Overview and history of the magazine

Biographies of Some Obscure Contributors to 19th-Century Periodicals
http://victorianresearch.org/Obscure_contributors.html

Gentleman's Magazine
The Gentleman's Magazine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentleman%27s_Magazine
Bodleian Internet Library of Early Journals - http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

The Girl's Own Paper
The Girl's Own Paper - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl's_Own_Paper
The Girl's Own Paper Index - http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/~h720/GOP/
A Short History of the G.O.P. - http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/~h720/GOP/history.shtml

MagazineArt.org
http://www.magazineart.org/ A huge collection of magazine cover art, from antique to modern.

Nineteeth-Century American Children and What They Read
http://www.merrycoz.org/kids.htm
"Here you'll find bits and pieces that I've collected or found interesting about 19th-century American children. You'll also find works selected from early children's books and magazines."

Research Society for American Periodicals
http://home.earthlink.net/~ellengarvey/index1.html
An interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in American magazines and newspapers.

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
http://www.rs4vp.org/
Dedicated to the study of the world's first mechanized "mass" press--newspapers, magazines, and other serial publications--that came into being in 19th-century Britain and its Empire.

The Strand
The History of The Strand - http://www.strandmag.com/hist.htm
The Strand Magazine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand_Magazine/
Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org/

Victorian Periodicals and the Empire
http://www.library.yale.edu/~mpowell/victorianper.html
Information about a variety of British journals, with a brief glimpse of each. Not a lot of detail, unfortunately.

Windsor Magazine
http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2008/05/windsor-magazine.html
A good introduction to the magazine, with the actual introduction to the first issue.



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