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Good Words

{{Short description|19th-century monthly periodical established in Scotland}}

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|editor = Norman Macleod

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Good Words was a 19th-century monthly periodical established in Scotland in 1860 by the Scottish publisher Alexander Strahan. Its first editor was Norman Macleod. After his death in 1872, it was edited by his brother, Donald Macleod, though there is some evidence that the publishing was taken over at that time by W. Isbister & Co.{{Cite web |title=William Isbister Collection, circa 1860-1906 |url=https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0065 |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=Finding Aids - Princeton University }}

Intended readership and content

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. The standard for content was that the devout should be able to read it on Sundays without sin. It became known as a "fireside read", which could be shared and enjoyed by adults, servants and masters.

Good Words was known for illustrations by such artists as John Everett Millais and Arthur Boyd Houghton, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.

Circulation

In 1863, Norman Macleod wrote that the magazine had a circulation of 70,000. In the following year, it advertised a monthly circulation of 160,000, but the number is probably exaggerated.

In 1906, Good Words was amalgamated with the weekly Sunday Magazine, and published in that format until 1910.

See also

References

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed. by George Watson. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Vol. 3, column 1849.

Eyre-Todd, George. [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/eyrwho/eyrwho1230.htm "Donald Macleod"] in [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/eyrwho/index.html Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909]. Retrieved 1 June 2011.

{{Cite journal |last=Gray |first=Donald |date=1987 |title=Review of The Yearbook of English Studies, Volume 16: Literary Periodicals Special Number; Alexander Strahan: Victorian Publisher |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828090 |journal=Victorian Studies |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=141–144 |jstor=3828090 |issn=0042-5222}}

James Pope-Hennessy (1978). Anthony Trollope (Phoenix Press paperback ed., 2001) pp. 261–263.

Judith Wittosch Malcolm. "Good Words", The Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope (R. C. Terry, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999) pp. 219–221.

R. H. Super (1990). The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope (University of Michigan Press) pp. 150–155.

{{Cite journal |last=Sutherland |first=John |date=1987 |title=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. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3044923 |journal=Nineteenth-Century Literature |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=120–126 |doi=10.2307/3044923 |jstor=3044923 |issn=0891-9356}}

Simon Cooke, PhD. [http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/goodwords/cooke.html.] "Good Words", The Victorian Web. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

External links

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  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000554204 Good Words archive at HathiTrust]

Category:1910 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

Category:Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom

Category:Defunct Christian magazines published in the United Kingdom

Category:Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom

Category:Evangelicalism in Scotland

Category:Magazines established in 1860

Category:Magazines disestablished in 1910

Category:Nonconformism

Category:1860 establishments in Scotland