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VictorianVoices.net has made over 250 of our magazine sources available for free download from Archive.org. Visit our individual magazine pages for download links, or see our magazine download page for a complete list!

Magazines archived on this site range from as early as 1834 to as late as 1913. The majority, however, are from the 1880's and 1890's - the hey-day of Victorian magazine publishing. Advances in printing, and in particular the ability to print illustrations and photographs, led to a huge surge in magazine and newspaper production.

Indeed, it's not necessarily correct to refer to all of the publications on this site as "magazines." Many were actually considered "papers" rather than "magazines." Magazines, like The Strand or Century, were generally published monthly and printed on high-quality stock, with glossy covers that were often printed in color. "Papers," such as The Girl's Own Paper, were usually published weekly, on poorer quality stock, with no separate cover. However, today one is most likely to find either type of publication in its annual or semi-annual format - that is, with all the editions for the past six or twelve months bound into a hard-cover volume. Generally, the advertising sections were removed in these bound volumes, and in some cases color prints were added that weren't part of the original editions. Most publishers issued their own annuals or semi-annuals, but readers often bound their own collections.

Obviously, the collections archived on this site represent only a tiny fraction of the magazines (and papers) published in the latter part of the Victorian era. They are my personal collection - the magazines I've found most interesting in terms of illustrating the Victorian way of life in Britain and America. I've also chosen to scan and archive only those publications that aren't readily available elsewhere in digital format. (Archive.org is definitely the best source of free electronic copies of Victorian magazines!) Many British magazines are still hard to find online - and, surprisingly, so is America's classic publication, Century Magazine.

This site brings you the complete collection of the Victorian years of The Girl's Own Paper, The Strand, Cassell's Family Magazine, and, on the American side, Century Magazine. Many of these magazines continued on well past the Victorian era, but the focus here is on the Victorian world and way of life. Other publications are a bit more random, ranging from incomplete collections (e.g., Harper's, English Illustrated Magazine, etc.) to one-offs that I've chanced upon in some obscure bookstore. On this site, you'll find most of the nonfiction articles from each publication. That's still perhaps only 50% of the actual content of each volume, as I haven't posted the majority of the fiction, poetry, editorial pages, "lighter side" columns, etc. from the various volumes. So there's still much to be explored in the volumes themselves!

Happy reading!

Collections

  The Atlantic Monthly

  Cassell's Family Magazine

  The Century Magazine

  Demorest's Monthly Magazine

  English Illustrated Magazine

  The Girl's Own Paper

  Godey's Lady's Book

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine

  Illustrated London Almanack

  Peterson's Magazine

  The Strand

  St. Nicholas

  Windsor Magazine

Individual Volumes or Issues

  Archaeological Journal - 1852

  Argosy - 1881, 1882, 1893

  The Art Journal - 1853, 1858, 1859

  Chambers's Miscellany - 1845

  Chums - 1895

  Collier's Cyclopedia - 1882

  Court Magazine - 1834

  Draper's Self-Culture, Vol. 6 - Sports, Pastimes, and Physical Culture - 1913

  English Annual - 1838

  Floral World - 1873

  Gentleman's Magazine - 1859

  Goodwords - 1902 (special Coronation issue)

  Home Magazine - 1898

  Ingalls' Home Magazine - 1888, 1889

  Lady's Realm - 1901

  Leisure Hour - 1860 and 1868

  Little Folks - 1878 and 1883

  McClure's Magazine - April 1897, August 1898

  The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend - 1890

  Needle & Brush - 1889

  New Illustrated Magazine - February 1900

  Quiver - 1889

  Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture Annual - 1886

  Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure - 1890

  Stories of History - 1891

  The Sunday Strand - 1902

  The Young Ladies' Journal - 1882

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