Alexander Strahan
{{Short description|British 19th century publisher}}
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Alexander Strahan (1833–1918) was a 19th-century publisher. His company, Alexander Strahan & Co., based at Ludgate Hill in London, published what was arguably{{cite web |title=Good Words |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/goodwords/cooke.html |website=The Victorian Web |accessdate=6 August 2019}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Howsam |title=Kegan Paul: A Victorian Imprint |date=1999 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781136174353 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NgmTAgAAQBAJ&q=Scottish+Presbyterian%2C+Alexander+Strahan&pg=PA40 |accessdate=7 August 2019}} He started his publishing business in Edinburgh in 1858.{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/organisation/alexander-strahan-and-co|title=Alexander Strahan and Co. | Organisations | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts}} 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." One of his financial backers was Sir Henry Seymour King, through whom Strahan made a lucrative deal with the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.{{cite book |last1=Hagen |first1=June |title=Tennyson and His Publishers |date=1979 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781349044368 |edition=Illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R42vCwAAQBAJ&q=Alexander%20Strahan%2C%20Contemporary%20Review&pg=PA121 |accessdate=7 August 2019}}
He married Lisbeth Gooch Séguin, a prolific travel writer, children's author, and contributor to periodicals.{{Cite book |last=Srebrnik |first=Patricia Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=moosAAAAYAAJ&q=lisbeth+gooch+seguin |title=Alexander Strahan, Victorian Publisher |date=1986 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-10072-9 |pages=184; 187 |language=en}}
=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 (established in 1869 and later retitled Good Things for the Young)
- Saint Paul's Magazine
- The Day of Rest: An Illustrated Journal of Sunday Reading (established 1872){{cite journal |title=Strahan's Sunday Magazine for the People |journal=Kirberger's Monthly Gazette of English Literarture |date=1872 |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cwtpAAAAcAAJ&q=Alexander%20Strahan%2C%20the%20Day%20of%20Rest&pg=RA32-PA12 |accessdate=7 August 2019}}
References
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Srebrnik, Patricia Thomas (1986) - Alexander Strahan, Victorian Publisher (University of Michigan Press)
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Category:19th-century British publishers (people)