 The Little Corporal October 1870 cover | |
| Editor | Emily Huntington Miller |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Alfred L. Sewell, Edward Eggleston |
| Categories | Children’s magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Alfred L. Sewell, John Edwin Miller |
| First issue | July 1865 |
| Final issue | April 1875 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Chicago, Illinois |
The Little Corporal was a monthly children’s magazine published in Chicago Illinois from 1865 to 1875[1] and became the first children's periodical in the United States to gain a nation-wide readership.[2] The magazine had a strong emphasis on patriotism and had the motto "Fighting against Wrong, and for the Good and the True and the Beautiful."[3]
It published works by popular writers of the day, including Harriet Mann Miller (writing as Olive Thorne), Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (writing as Susan Coolidge), Josephine Pollard and Harry Castlemon.[1] The periodical merged with St. Nicholas Magazine in 1875.[2]
- ^ a b Mott, Frank Luther, A History of American Magazines, Volume III: 1865-1885, page 175, Harvard University Press, 1938
- ^ a b Kelly, R. Gordon, Children's Periodicals of the United States, pages 277 - 282, Greenwood Press, 1984
- ^ Fleming, Herbert Easton, Magazines of a Market: Being a History of the Literary Periodicals and Literary Interests of Chicago, pages 404 - 406, University of Chicago Press, 1906