Scribner's Monthly
{{Short description|American literary periodical published from 1870 until 1881}}
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| image_file = Scribner's Monthly.jpg
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| image_alt = First issue
| image_caption = The first issue of Scribner's Monthly, November 1870
| editor = J. G. Holland
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| frequency = Monthly
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| category = Pictorial, literature
| company = Scribner & Co.
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| firstdate = November 1870
| finaldate = October 1881
| country = United States
| based = New York City
| language = English
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Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People was an illustrated American literary periodical published from 1870 until 1881. Following a change in ownership in 1881 of the company that had produced it, the magazine was relaunched as The Century Magazine.
History
Charles Scribner I, Andrew Armstrong, Arthur Peabody, Edward Seymour, Josiah Gilbert Holland, and Roswell Smith established Scribner & Co. on July 19, 1870, to start on the publication of Scribner's Monthly.{{cite web |title=Charles Scribner's Sons: An Illustrated Chronology |url=http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/scribner/index.html |publisher=Princeton University Library |location=65 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 United States of America |date=November 8, 2002 |access-date=August 28, 2009}} Scribner's Monthly absorbed the second incarnation of Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art.{{cite web |first=John |last=Mark Ockerbloom |title=Scribner's |url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=scribners |publisher=The Online Books Page |access-date=August 28, 2009}} The first issue of the newly formed periodical was published in November of that year.
In April 1881, Charles Scribner II sold his share of the Scribner & Co. company to Roswell Smith. The names of the magazine and the company were retooled, dropping mention of 'Scribner'; Scribner's Monthly was changed to The Century Magazine and Scribner & Co. was changed to Century Company.
Charles Scribner II was unable to launch a competing magazine for five years. In 1886, Scribner announced to a Times reporter that they would make a new monthly publication "as soon as the necessary arrangements could be perfected". Scribner also announced that the editor would be Edward Burlingame, the son of Anson Burlingame, who was already connected to the publishing house as a literary advisor.
Scribner further noted that the magazine would not be a revival of the formerly published Scribner's Monthly.{{cite news |title=A New Scribner's Magazine |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1886/07/10/103961470.pdf |work=The New York Times |location=New York|issn=0362-4331 |oclc=1645522 |date=July 10, 1886 |page=5 |access-date=August 28, 2009}}
Contributors
Notable contributors have included Charles Barnard,{{Cite journal |last=Barnard |first=Charles |date=1875 |title=—▪— ▪— — ▪, or, Kate |journal=Scribner's Monthly |volume=10 |issue= |via=HathiTrust}} Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,{{Cite journal |last=Boyesen |first=Hjalmar Hjorth |date=1876 |title=The Man Who Lost His Name |url= |journal=Scribner's Monthly |volume=12 |issue= |via=HathiTrust}} Truman C. Everts,{{Cite journal |last=Everts |first=Truman |date=1871 |title=Thirty-Seven Days of Peril |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30924/30924-h/30924-h.htm |journal=Scribner's Monthly |volume=3 |issue= |via=Project Gutenberg}} Edmund Gosse,{{Cite journal |last=Gosse |first=Edmund |date=1892 |title=Poem |journal=Scribner's Monthly |volume=44 |via=HathiTrust}} Frances Hodgson Burnett,{{Cite journal |last=Hodgson Burnett |first=Frances |date=1913 |title=T. Tembarom |journal=Scribner's Monthly |volume=87 |issue= |via=HathiTrust}} Sidney Lanier,{{Cite journal |last=Lanier |first=Sidney |date=1880 |title=The Orchestra of Today |journal=Scribner's Monthly |volume=19 |via=HathiTrust}} John Muir{{Cite journal |last=Muir |first=John |date=1880 |title=In the Heart of the California Alps |journal=Scribner's Monthly |volume=20 |via=HathiTrust}} and others.
Footnotes
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Further reading
- Robert J. Scholnick, "Scribner's Monthly and the 'Pictorial Representation of Life and Truth' in Post-Civil War America", American Periodicals, vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 1991), pp. 46–69. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20770997 In JSTOR]
External links
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- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Scribner's Monthly |dname=Scribner's Monthly |coda= and Google Books |sopt=t}}
- [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.journals/scmo.html Scribner's Monthly] at Cornell University Library, vols. 1-5, 7-22 (1870–1881)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820005620/http://libcudl.colorado.edu:8180/luna/servlet/UCBOULDERCB1~60~60 Holland Collection of Literary Letters, University of Colorado Boulder]
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