Sunday reading was a genre of periodical popular in Victorian Britain which offered light Christian reading thought to be suitable for families to read at home on Sundays. Typical examples such as Sunday at Home, The Quiver, and Leisure Hour featured a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, and verse, all dealing in some way with Christian themes.
The genre was partly a reaction to the rise of cheaply available secular publications, which some observers considered to be morally insidious.[1] It declined around the beginning of the 20th century as social taboos around consuming secular entertainment on the Sabbath weakened.