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Alexander Strahan

Alexander Strahan

British 19th century publisher

Alexander Strahan (1833–1918) was a 19th-century publisher. His company, Alexander Strahan & Co., based at Ludgate Hill in London, published what was arguably[1] one of the dominant periodicals in the 1860s, a monthly magazine called Good Words.

Early life and career

Born in Edinburgh, he was a Scottish Presbyterian.[2] He started his publishing business in Edinburgh in 1858.[3] He moved to London in 1862 and "widened his interest to include what his modern day biographer Patricia Sebrebrnik identifies as the literature of Christian social reform."[2] One of his financial backers was Sir Henry Seymour King, through whom Strahan made a lucrative deal with the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.[2][4]

He married Lisbeth Gooch Séguin, a prolific travel writer, children's author, and contributor to periodicals.[5]

List of periodicals

  • Good Words (established 1860)
  • The Sunday Magazine (established 1864)
  • Argosy (established 1865)
  • The Contemporary Review (established 1866)
  • Good Words for the Young (retitled Good Things for the Young)
  • Saint Paul's Magazine
  • The Day of Rest: An Illustrated Journal of Sunday Reading (established 1872)[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Good Words". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  2. [2]
    Howsam (1999). Kegan Paul: A Victorian Imprint. Routledge. ISBN 9781136174353. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Alexander Strahan and Co. | Organisations | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts".
  4. [4]
    Hagen, June (1979). Tennyson and His Publishers (Illustrated ed.). Springer. ISBN 9781349044368. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  5. [5]
    Srebrnik, Patricia Thomas (1986). Alexander Strahan, Victorian Publisher. University of Michigan Press. pp. 184, 187. ISBN 978-0-472-10072-9.
  6. [6]
    "Strahan's Sunday Magazine for the People". Kirberger's Monthly Gazette of English Literarture. 1. 1872. Retrieved 7 August 2019.

Srebrnik, Patricia Thomas (1986) - Alexander Strahan, Victorian Publisher (University of Michigan Press)
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