Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
21 November, 1840, copy of the Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
FrequencyWeekly
FounderWilliam Chambers
First issue1832; 192 years ago (1832)
Final issue1956 (1956)
CompanyW. & R. Chambers Publishers
Based inLondon, UK

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832.[1] The first edition was dated 4 February 1832,[2] 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.[3] From 1847 to 1849, it was edited by William Henry Wills. In 1854 the title was changed to Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art,[4] and changed again to Chambers's Journal at the end of 1897.

The journal was produced in Edinburgh until the late 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. Among its long-standing contributors was Camilla Dufour Crosland up to her death in 1895.[5]

The journal continued to be published until 1956,[6] when it ceased publication.[1]

  1. ^ a b Teresa Pinto Coelho (2014). Eça de Queirós and the Victorian Press. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-85566-268-1. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
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  4. ^ Clemm (2008), p. 74
  5. ^ The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 251.
  6. ^ Baker & Womack (2002), pp. 22–23