Periodical Database

The Periodical Database is intended to provide basic information about all the English-language magazines of literary and artistic interest operating during the period from 1890 to 1922. We stop at 1922 for copyright reasons, with the intellectual justification that we are interested in the rise of modernism, which may be considered complete by that date. The list may be downloaded or used in any way scholars and students of modernism wish to use it.

The MJP exists mainly to provide digital editions of magazines from this period, with full editorial support. This list is a work in progress, and we invite all those interested to help us improve it.

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NAME	COUNTRY	TYPE	PERIODICITY	START	END	NOTES
Youth	US	Little	Monthly	1921	1922
Youth	US	Little	Bi-Monthly	1918	1919
Yours Truly	US (Chicago)	Bibelot		1905	1907
The Yellow Kid	US (New York)	Bibelot		1897	1897	Absorbed by Yellow Book.
The Yellow Dog	US (Chicago)	Bibelot	Monthly	1901	1901	Illustrated.
The Yellow Book	US (New York)	Bibelot		1897	1898	Absorbed Yellow Kid.
The Yellow Book	GB	Inter	Quarterly	1894	1897	Justly famous and much reprinted.
The Yahoo	US (St. Louis)	Bibelot		1903	1903
The World’s Work	US	Inter	Monthly	1900	1932	This was a major voice of American capitalism until it merged with Review of Reviews in 1932; social and political rather than literary, it published important prose by B. T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois; some discussion of literature and visual art; and chapters on Arabia by T. E. Lawrence in 1921. Its editor until 1913 was Arthur Page, of the Doubleday and Page publishing firm, which published the magazine. Page championed "Talylorism" in industry and was very critical of public services, including the army and the postal service.
The Woman’s Protest	US	Little	Monthly	1912	1918	Pub. of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
Woman’s Home Companion	US	Popular	Monthly	1897	1957	Assumed present title in 1897, after which authors include H. Garland, S. O. Jewett, B. Harte, R. Sabatini, J. London, K. Norris, W. Cather, S. Anderson, B. Tarkington, E. Glasgow, S. Lewis, P. Buck, J. Galsworthy, A. Bennett.
The Woman at Home	GB	Mixed	Monthly	1893	1931	Some title changes over the life of the magazine; began as a "female Strand" (Ashley), aimed at middle-class women; mixed society reporting with literary material, including interviews, profiles, and portraits; writers included G. Atherton, M. Sinclair, E. Nesbit, W. Le Queux, E. P. Oppenheim, Baroness Orczy, E. F. Benson, and R. West.
Wisdom	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1902	1902
Windsor Magazine	GB	Popular	Monthly	1895	1939	Running right through the rise of modernism, this magazine was everything modernism was not, as the following list of contributors indicates: Marie Corelli, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, Rider Haggard, Bret Harte, Rudyard Kipling, W. D. Howells, and Jack London. It also welcomed Dornford Yates and P. G. Wodehouse's early works; bound copies around. No reprint.
The Windmill	GB (London*)	Bibelot	Quarterly	1898	1899
The Wild Hawk	US	Little	Monthly	1912	1936	Became the Plowshare in 1916
Why?	US (Cedar Rapids, IA)	Bibelot		1897	1897
The White Rabbit	US (Oberlin, OH)	Bibelot	Monthly	1897	1897	Illustrated.
The White Owl	US (Philadelphia)	Bibelot	Monthly	1901	1902	Illustrated.
The White Elephant	US (New York)	Bibelot		1896	1897	Absorbed Poker Chips.
The Whisper	US (East Aurora, NY)	Bibelot		1901	1902
Whims	US (New York)	Bibelot	Monthly	1896	1896	Illustrated.
The Whim	US (Newark, NJ)	Bibelot		1901	1905
Wheels	GB	Little	Annual	1917	1921	Ed. E. Sitwell; contribs include other Sitwells, N. Cunard, A. Huxley, I. Tree, E. W. Tennant. MJP edition.
What’s the Use	US (East Aurora, NY)	Bibelot		1901	1903
What to Eat	US (Minneapolis)	Bibelot		1896	1903
The Wet Dog	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1896	1896
The Westminster Review	GB	Inter	Quarterly	1824	1914
The Westminster Magazine	US	Little	Quarterly	1911	1944	Absorbed Bozart and Contemporary Verse.
Westminster Chap Book	US (Franklin, IN)	Bibelot	Monthly	1902	1902	Illustrated.
Wayside Tales	US (Detroit)	Bibelot		1901	1903
The Wave	US; Europe	Little	Irregular	1922	1924
Wave	US (Chicago)	Bibelot		1922	1924
Wave		Bibelot		1894	1895
The Waste-basket	US (Detroit)	Bibelot		1896	1896
The Washingtonian	US (Washington, DC)	Bibelot		1897	1897
Wales	GB	Inter	Monthly	1911	1914
Voices	US	Little	Bi-Monthly	1921	Recent
Voices	GB	Little	Irregular	1919	1921
The Voice of the Negro	US	Little	Monthly	1904	1907	Published in Atlanta and then in Chicago; writers included W. E. B. Du Bois, George Washington Carver, Mary Church Terrell, John H. Adams Jr., and Booker T. Washington.
Vogue	US	Popular	Weekly to 1910	1892	2010+	A fashion and society journal with very occasional forays into literature, publishing writers like Kate Chopin.
Vision	US	Little	Quarterly	1911	1912
The Village Magazine	US	Little	Unique	1910	1910	Revised version in 1920, 1925.
Verde Mons	US (Waits River, VT)	Bibelot
The Venture	GB	Little	Annual	1903	1905	Eds. L Housman and W. S. Maugham; contribs include J. Masefield, T. Hardy, S. Philips, F. Thompson, L. Binyon, Maugham, A. Meynell, V. Hunt, A. Symons, T. S. Moore, F. Farr, J. Joyce, O. Gogarty.
Varieties	US (New York)	Bibelot		1898	1898
Vanity Fair	US	Popular	Monthly	1914	1936
Vanity Fair	GB	Inter	Weekly	1868	1928
The Vandal	US (Pittsburg)	Bibelot		1900	1900
Valley Magazine	US (St. Louis)	Bibelot		1903	1903	By Reedy.
Uriel	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1895	1895
The Tyro	GB	Little	Two Issues	1921	1922	W. Lewis edited; very much a Lewis production, it emphasized visual art and included critical writing by T. S. Eliot, H. Read, J. Rodker, and Lewis himself. Cass reprint. MJP edition.
Two Tales	US (Boston)	Bibelot	Weekly	1892	1893
Two Penny Classics	US (Chicago)	Bibelot		1898	1898
Twilight	US (San Francisco)	Bibelot		1898	1898
Truth in Boston	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1895	1896
Truth	GB	Inter	Weekly	1877	1957
The Tripod	GB	Little	Monthly Oct-June	1912	1913
Trimmed Lamp	US (Chicago)	Bibelot		1914	1914
Trend	US (New York)	Bibelot		1911	1915
Touchstone	US (New York)	Bibelot		1917	1921
To-morrow	US (Chicago)	Bibelot		1905	1905
To-Day	GB	Little	Monthly	1917	1923	Contributors included Yeats and the Georgian Poets, but also Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; Jackson wrote favorably about J. Joyce.; an earlier version, 1893-1905, published fiction by Stevenson, Kipling, Harte, and others; this later version, edited by H. Jackson, emerged from T. P. Weekly but was a new magazine. Bound editions, no Reprint.
Time and Tide	GB	Inter	Weekly	1920	1971
Time & the Hour	US (Boston)	Bibelot	Weekly	1896	1899	Illustrated.
The Thrush	GB (London*)	Bibelot		1901	1902
Thrush	GB	Little	Monthly	1909	1910	Hoffman/Ulrich missed this one.
The Thistle	US (New Rochelle, NY)	Bibelot		1902	1903
Theatre Arts Magazine	US (Detroit)		Quarterly	1916	1923	Traces the emergence of modern American drama while covering dance and Broadway theater. Edited by Sheldon Cheney. Later becomes Theatre Arts Monthly (1924-39) and Theatre Arts (1939-64).
Tempo	US	Little	Irregular	1921	1923
Temple Bar	GB	Inter	Monthly	1861	1906	A Victorian journal that published serious fiction but could not adjust to modernism. In ProQuest digital archive.
The Tattler Magazine	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1897	1898
Tales from Town Topics	US (New York)	Bibelot		1904	1904
Tabasco	US (Lapeer, MI)	Bibelot	Monthly	1902	1902	Illustrated.
T. P.’s Weekly	GB	Little	Weekly	1902	1916
The Symposium	US (Northampton, MA)	Bibelot		1896	1896
The Suffragist	US	Little	Weekly	1913	1921	Became monthly in 1920; the official pub. of National Woman's Party.
The Suffragist	GB	Little		1909
Stylus	US (New York)	Bibelot		1910	1910
A Stuffed Club for Everybody	US (Denver)	Bibelot		1900	1903
The Studio	GB; US	Little	Monthly	1893	1964	Vols. 1-116 have subtitle: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art (varies slightly). From March 1897 to 1921, an American edition of the Studio was issued in New York, titled The International Studio. A certain part of each number was printed in England and joined with an American section to make the complete magazine. In 1922 the International Studio was purchased by the International Studio Inc., and was then produced wholly in America.
The Stratford Journal	US	Little	Irregular	1916	1925
The Strand Magazine	GB	Popular	Monthly	1891	1950	Provided the template for the illustrated popular magazine (Ashley); began with translations of Pushkin, Maupassant and others; introduced the short-story series with Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, continuing later with Wodehouse's Jeeves and others. Writers included W. Le Queux, E. Phillpotts, H. G. Wells, E. Nesbit, W. W. Jacobs, A. E. W. Mason, A. Bennett, H. Caine, Sapper, E. Dell, D. H. Lawrence, A. Huxley, D. Sayers, and A. Christie.
The Story-Teller	GB	Popular	Monthly	1907	1937	Called "the best all-fiction magazine of its day" by M. Ashley; published work by H. Caine, E. P. Oppenheim, M. Bowen, O. Onions, M. Leblanc, A. and C. Askew, J. Futrelle, R. Sabatini, G. K. Chesterton, S. Rohmer, A. Bennett, R. Kipling, and, in later years, F. S. Fitzgerald, D. Sayers, and P. Gallico.
The Story-teller	US (Terre Haute, IN)	Bibelot		1900	1900
Story Book	US (Chicago)	Bibelot	Monthly	1901	1901	Illustrated.
The Stilletto	US (New York)	Bibelot		1900	1900
Stevensonia	US (New York)	Bibelot		1900	1900
Steel Points	US (Portland, OR)	Bibelot		1906	1907
St. Nicholas	US	Popular	Monthly	1873	1941	Primarily for young people, its authors included Twain, T. Roosevelt, Henty, Kipling, E. St. V. Millay, W. Faulkner.
The Sphere	GB	Popular	Weekly	1900	1964	An illustrated weekly, it published writing by H. Caine, R. W. Chambers, M. Corelli, T. Hardy, A. E. W. Mason, K. Mansfield, E. Nesbit and others.
The Spectator	GB	Inter	Weekly	1828	1925
The South Atlantic Quarterly	US	Inter	Quarterly	1902	2010+
Sothoron’s Magazine	US (Philadelphia)	Bibelot	Monthly	1896	1897	Illustrated.
Sonnet	US (Williamsport, PA)	Bibelot		1919	1919
The Sonnet	US	Little	Bi-Monthly	1917	1921
The Soil	US	Little	Monthly	1916	1917
Snap Shots	US (New York)	Bibelot		1901	1901
The Smart Set	US	Popular	Monthly	1900	1930	Contributors include Jack London, A. Bierce, R. Herrick, J. B. Cabell, T. Dreiser, O. Henry, A. Symons, Huneker, D. H. Lawrence, G. Moore, F. Harris, W. B. Yeats, A. Schnitzler, F. Wedekind, A. Strindberg, and W. B. Yeats, along with Mencken and Nathan; various subtitles and many editors--the most famous being G. J. Nathan and H. L. Mencken, who ran the magazine from 1914 to 1923. W. H. Wright (later known as S. S. Van Dine) edited in 1913-14; microfilm.
Slate	US	Little	Monthly	1917	1917
The Skeptic	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1896	1897
Signature	GB	Little	Three Issues	1915	1915
The Shanacie	Ireland	Little	Quarterly	1906	1907	Contributors include J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats, J. Eglinton, P Colum, J. B. Yeats, Lord Dundany.
The Shadow	US (Cambridge, MA)	Bibelot		1896	1896
Sewanee Review	US	Little	Quarterly	1892	2010+	Primarily a journal of literary criticism with a distinguished list of poets and academic critics writing for it.
The Seven Arts	US	Little	Monthly	1916	1917	An important little mag, for one with such a short run. Published poetry by Frost, Sandburg, A. Lowell, and others; fiction by S. Anderson, E. O'Neill, and D. H. Lawrence; criticism by R. Bourne, V. W. Brooks, W. Frank, Oppenheim; absorbed by The Dial. AMS Reprint.
Seen and Heard by Megarge	US (Philadelphia)	Bibelot	Weekly	1901	1903
Secession	Europe; US	Little	Irregular	1922	1924
The Scroll	Canada (Montreal*)	Bibelot		1900	1901
Scribner’s Magazine	US	Inter	Monthly	1887	1939	Writing by Kipling, Galsworthy, R. L. Stevenson, E. A. Robinson, A. Lowell, E. Wharton, S. Teasdale, F. S. Fitzgerald, A. C. Doyle, E. W. Hornung, T. Roosevelt, F. Nansen; microfilm, many bound copies around. MJP edition, 1910-22.
The Scots Observer	GB	Inter	Weekly	1888	1897	Became National Observer in 1890; edited mainly by W. E. Henley; authors include Kipling Yeats, Swinburne, Stevenson, A. Meynell, K. Graham, Mallarme.
The Schoolmaster	US (Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY)	Bibelot		1900	1902
The Savoy	GB	Little	Quarterly, Monthly	1896	1896	Short-lived but interesting; fiction by Symons, Conrad, Yeats; prose by Pater, H. Ellis, Shaw, Beerbohm; art mostly by Beardsley.
The Saturnian	US	Little	Irregular	1921	1922
The Saturday Review of Literature	US	Inter	Weekly	1920	1986?
The Saturday Review	GB	Inter	Weekly	1855	1938	The voice of upper-class England, it declined into fascist sympathy before its end in 1938; in the 1890s Shaw, Wells, and Beerbohm wrote for it.
The Saturday Evening Post	US	Popular	Weekly	1821	1969	NOT founded in 1728 by Ben Franklin; became popular magazine in 1897, emphasizing business, politics, and romance; fiction by Frank Norris, Jack London, J. Conrad, Kipling, Crane, Dreiser, Wharton, Cather, H. G. Wells, R. Lardner, M. R. Rinehart, G. K. Chesterton, E. P. Oppenheim, B. Tarkington, P. G. Wodehouse, S. Lewis, K. Brush, J. P. Marquand; strong in visual art, with N. Rockwell starting in 1916--this journal is a treasure trove of Americana.
The Sansculotte	US	Little	Monthly	1917	1917
Samhain	GB; Ireland	Little	Irregular	1901	1908	Suspended 06-08. Cass reprint.
The Sage Leaf	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1901	1901>
S 4 N	US	Little	Monthly	1919	1925	Combined with Modern Review 1926.
The Rubric	US (Chicago)	Bibelot	Bi-Monthly	1901	1902	Illustrated.
Roycroft Quarterly	US (East Aurora, NY)	Bibelot		1896	1896
the Royal Magazine	GB	Popular	Monthly	1898	1939	After some title changes it became a screen magazine in 1935, though it had emphasized photography from the beginning. Writers included Orczy, Sabatini, Rohmer (under his real name of Ward), E. Glyn, M. Arlen, J. Hergesheimer, M. Edginton, and A. Achmed, but reporting and history were mixed with fiction in this magazine.
The Rough Rider	US (Butte, MT)	Bibelot		1900	1901
The Rose-Jar	US (New York)	Bibelot		1904	1905
Rose Bush	US (Cleveland, OH)	Bibelot		1906	1906>
Rongwrong	US	Little	Irregular	1917	1917
Romance	US (New York)	Bibelot		1895	1896
The Rolling Stone	US	Little	Weekly	1894	1895	Short lived; owned and mostly written by W. S. Porter who later became better known as O. Henry.
Rogue	US	Little	Semi-Monthly	1915	1916
Rhythm	GB	Little	Quarterly	1911	1913	Especially strong in modernist visual art, with Fergusson as art editor; artworks by Picasso, Gaudier-Brzeska, J. Dismorr and others; writing by Mansfield and Murry dominates; edited by J. M. Murry, with K. Mansfield and J. D. Fergusson. MJP edition.
The Rhymster	US (Hedrich, IA)	Bibelot	Monthly	1901	1901	Illustrated.
The Review of Reviews	US	Inter	Monthly	1891	1937	The US version became more distinct in 1897; both reviewed other journals and published condensed versions of fiction by Tolstoy and others; merged with the Literary Digest in 1937.
The Review of Reviews	GB	Inter	Monthly	1890	1936	Somewhat different versions of this journal were published in the UK and the US; hence, entries for both in this list. Founded by W. T. Stead, this journal was designed to report on the world of journalism itself, and did so successfully until his death on the titanic in 1912. The magazine continued under various editors until it became TheWorld Review in 1936.
The Reviewer	US	Little	Semi-Monthly	1921	1925
Reedy’s Mirror	US	Little	Weekly	1891	1920	Based in St. Louis, MO, this was an early and important little magazine, especially under the editorship of William Marion Reedy from 1913 to 1920, when it was an important rival to Poetry magazine of Chicago. Aka The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror.
The Red Magazine	GB	Popular	Monthly	1908	1939	Poised between adult and juvenile fiction, and sometimes called The Harmsworth Red Magazine, it published work by F. H. Evans, E. M. Dell, G. Leroux, J. London, O. Onions, R. Sabatini, O. Henry, R. Newton, R. W. Chambers, Rider Haggard, E. Nesbit, U. Bloom, and ultimately F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Red Letter	US (Boston)	Bibelot	Monthly	1896	1897	Illustrated.
The Rebel	US (Philadelphia)	Bibelot		1901	1901
The Rebel	US (Lincoln, NE)	Bibelot		1900	1901
Realization	US (Washington, DC)	Bibelot		1900	1903
Rainbow	US	Little	Monthly	1920	?
Raab’s Review	US	Little	Monthly	1920	?
Quivera Legends	(Roca, NE)	Bibelot		1898	1900
Quips and Snips	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1902	1902
Quill	US (New York)	Bibelot		1917	1919
Quill	US (San Francisco)	Bibelot		1898	1898
The Quiet Observer	US (Pittsburg)	Bibelot	Weekly	1900	1901	Illustrated.
The Quest	US (Boston); GB (Birmingham, England)	Bibelot		1894	1896	Illustrated.
Quartier Latin	France (Paris); GB (London); US (New York)	Bibelot	Monthly	1896	1899	Illustrated.
The Quarterly Review	GB	Inter	Quarterly	1809	1962
Quarterly Review	US (Kansas, MO)	Bibelot	Quarterly	1916	1917
The Quarterly Notebook	US	Little	Quarterly	1916	1917
Ye Quaint Magazine	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1901	1903
Putnam’s Monthly	US	Inter	Monthly	1853	1910	Various subtitles; absorbed The Critic in 1906; absorbed by the Atlantic Monthly in 1910.
Punch	GB	Inter	Weekly	1841	2010+
Puck	US	Inter	Weekly	1877	1918	A humor magazine, at its best in the eighties and nineties; cartoons were a strength.
The Publisher’s Weekly	US	Inter	Weekly	1872	2010+	Important for listings and advertising.
The Protest	GB (Eden Bridge, Kent, England*)	Bibelot		1902	1903
The Progress Magazine	US (New York)	Bibelot		1909	1909
Pro Cingula Veritas	US (Concord, MA)	Bibelot		1903	1903
The Princess	US (Chicago)	Bibelot	Monthly	1901	1902	Illustrated.
The Premier Magazine	GB	Popular	Monthly	1914	1931	Ran in three different series and was published fortnightly from 1919 to1923. Writers included Rohmer, Sabatini, Le Queux, A. P. Terhune, H. Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, J. K. Jerome, and A. Abdullah.
The Powder Magazine	US (Detroit)	Bibelot		1901	1901
Pot-Pourri	US (Fremont, OH)	Bibelot		1898	1899
Pot-Pourri	US (Boston)	Bibelot	Fortnightly	1896	1896	Illustrated.
Poster Lore	US (Kansas City)	Bibelot		1896	1896
The Poster	US (New York)	Bibelot		1896	1896
Poker Chips	US (New York)	Bibelot		1896	1896	Absorbed by White Elephant.
The Poet’s Scroll	US	Little	Monthly	1922	1934
Poet’s Own	US (Louisville, KY)	Bibelot		1903	1903
The Poetry Review of America	US	Little	Monthly	1916	1917
The Poetry Review	GB	Little	Monthly/ Quarterly	1912	1969	Began as The Poetical Gazette in 1909, continued as Poetry Review after 1969.
The Poetry Journal	US	Little	Monthly	1912	1918	Occasionally suspended.
Poetry Journal	US (Boston)	Bibelot		1913	1914
Poetry and Drama	GB	Little	Quarterly	1913	1914
Poetry	US (Chicago)	Little	Monthly	1912	2010+	A major little magazine that lasted like few others; poets and critics published here are a Who's Who of modern poetry and criticism: Pound, Eliot, V. Lindsay, Aldington, H. D., W. C. Williams, D. H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens, and others; founded and edited in Chicago by Harriet Monroe; microfilm. MJP edition, 1912-22.
Poet Lore	US	Inter	Monthly?	1891	1939
Poesy	GB	Little	Irregular	1915	1917
The Pocket Magazine	US (New York)	Bibelot		1895	1901
Plowshare	US (Woodstock, NY)	Bibelot		1917	1935
Playboy	US	Little	Irregular	1919	1924	Suspended 1921-1923.
Pink Pill	US (Hobson, MT)	Bibelot		1909	1909
The Pilgrim	US (Milwaukee)	Bibelot		1895	1896
Pierrot	US (Kansas City)	Bibelot	Monthly	1896	1896	Illustrated.
Pickwick	US (Chicago)	Bibelot	Monthly	1898	1898	Illustrated.
Phyllida, or the Milkmaid	US (San Francisco)	Bibelot		1897	1897
Phonogram	US (New York)	Bibelot		1900	1902
The Phoenix	US	Little	Monthly	1914	1916	Followed Papyrus.
Philosopher	US (Wausau, WI)	Bibelot	Monthly	1897	1906	Illustrated.
Philopolis	US (San Francisco)	Bibelot		1906	1909
Philistine	US	Inter	Monthly	1895	1915	A journal of literary criticism and satire.
Le Petit Journal des Réfusées	US (San Francisco)	Bibelot		1896	1896	MJP edition.
Personal Impressions	US (San Francisco)	Bibelot	Monthly	1900	1900	Illustrated.
Penny Magazine	US (New York)	Bibelot	Monthly	1896	1901	Illustrated.
Penny Magazine	US (Philadelphia)	Bibelot		1896	1896+
Penny Fiction	US (New York)	Bibelot		1892	1898
The Pebble	US (Omaha, NE)	Bibelot	Monthly	1900	1901	Illustrated.
Pearson’s Magazine	GB	Mixed	Monthly	1896	1939	A middlebrow journal, similar to the Windsor, it published writers like Dornford Yates, R. A. Freeman, Rider Haggard, R. L. Stevenson, A. C. Doyle, P. C. Wren, S. Maugham, and A. Waugh.

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Besides working only with original issues (i.e., not reprints) published before 1923, the MJP is committed to using only copies of journals that have their original advertising intact. Since stripping out the advertising was a common practice when libraries originally bound the magazines into volumes, locating cover-to-cover issues can be a challenge. To meet that challenge, we’ve set up a separate set of web pages, called the Cover-to-Cover Initiative, devoted to locating libraries with cover-to-cover issues of twenty magazines that we’re specially interested in. We encourage you to visit that site as well, and to contribute information about your library’s holdings for the listed journals.

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Subject Matter & Sources

A note about our subject matter and sources:

Mass magazines begin at the end of the nineteenth century.
Little magazines appear in reaction to them.
Earlier magazines are usually classified on our list as “inter” for intermediate.
We have not included some highly specialized magazines (like The Dickensian) in our list.

Sources consulted in compiling the periodical directory include:

Frank Luther Mott’s A History of American Magazines (all five volumes);
Theodore Peterson’s Magazines in the Twentieth Century;
Frederick Hoffman, Charles Allen, and Carolyn Ulrich’s The Little Magazine;
Alvin Sullivan’s British Literary Magazines, volumes 3 (1837-1913) and 4 (1914-1984);
Edward Chielens’s American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries as well as his American Literary Magazines: The Twentieth Century and The Literary Journal in America, 1900-1950; Michael Ashley’s The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880-1950.

Additional Resources:

We have also received considerable help from Brad Evans at Rutgers, who has added a large number of very small magazines (bibelots) to this list. We hope others will follow Brad’s example and send us information about journals published during our time period (1890-1922) that we can add to this list.