Good Words was a 19th-century monthly periodical established in the United Kingdom in 1860 by the Scottish publisher Alexander Strahan.[1] Its first editor was Norman Macleod. After his death in 1872, it was edited by his brother, Donald Macleod,[2] though there is some evidence that the publishing was taken over at that time by W. Isbister & Co.[3]
Good Words was directed at evangelicals and nonconformists, particularly of the lower middle classes. It included overtly religious material, but also fiction and non-fiction articles on general subjects, including science.[4] The standard for content was that the devout should be able to read it on Sundays without sin.[5] It became known as a "fireside read", which could be shared and enjoyed by adults, servants and masters.[6]
In 1863, Norman Macleod wrote that the magazine had a circulation of 70,000.[1] In the following year, it advertised a monthly circulation of 160,000, but the number is probably exaggerated.[7][8]
In 1906, Good Words was amalgamated with the weekly Sunday Magazine, and published in that format until 1910.[9]
Referencesedit
^ abR. H. Super (1990). The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope (University of Michigan Press) pp. 150–155.
^Eyre-Todd, George. "Donald Macleod" in Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
^"William Isbister Collection, circa 1860-1906". Finding Aids - Princeton University. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
^Judith Wittosch Malcolm. "Good Words", The Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope (R. C. Terry, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999) pp. 219–221.
^James Pope-Hennessy (1978). Anthony Trollope (Phoenix Press paperback ed., 2001) pp. 261–263.
^ abSimon Cooke, PhD. [1] "Good Words", The Victorian Web. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^Sutherland, John (1987). "Review of Alexander Strahan: Victorian Publisher.; The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street.; The Literature of Labour: Two Hundred Years of Working-Class Writing.; The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below". Nineteenth-Century Literature. 42 (1): 120–126. doi:10.2307/3044923. ISSN 0891-9356. JSTOR 3044923.
^Gray, Donald (1987). "Review of The Yearbook of English Studies, Volume 16: Literary Periodicals Special Number; Alexander Strahan: Victorian Publisher". Victorian Studies. 31 (1): 141–144. ISSN 0042-5222. JSTOR 3828090.
^The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed. by George Watson. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Vol. 3, column 1849.
External linksedit
Media related to Good Words at Wikimedia Commons
Good Words archive at HathiTrust
April 11, 2024
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