''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' was a 19th-century literary magazine published in

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from 1868 to 1915, when it relocated to New York to become '' McBride's Magazine''. It merged with ''

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'' in 1916. ''Lippincott's'' published original works, general articles, and literary criticism. It is indexed in the Reader's Guide Retrospective database, and the full-text of many issues is available online from Project Gutenberg, and in various commercial databases such as the American Periodicals Series from

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. ''Lippincott's'' was published by J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia until 1914, then by McBride, Nast & Co. There were 96 semi-annual volumes. From 1881 to 1885 they were issued as vols. 1 to 10 "New Series" or "N.S." (see image) and bound such as "Old Series, Vol. XXVII – New Series, Vol. I" (January to June 1881) but the old series was resumed with January 1887 issued as volume 37, number 1.

Early names

* 1868–1870: ''Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education'' * 1871–1885: ''Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science''

Notable authors

''Lippincott's'' published several notable authors of the day, including: * Gertrude Atherton: ''Doomswoman'' (1892) *

Willa Cather Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including ''O Pioneers!'', ''The Song of the Lark (novel), The Song of the Lark'', a ...

* Florence Earle Coates, Philadelphia poet whose poetry was featured nearly five dozenBohm, Sonja N., comp. ''The Published Works of Florence Earle Coates (Magazines)''. 2009. Print. times in ''Lippincott's'' between 1885 and 1915. *

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Hol ...

: ''

The Sign of the Four ''The Sign of the Four'', also called ''The Sign of Four'', is an 1890 detective novel, and it is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring ...

'' (February 1890) *

Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American C ...

: ''The Sport of the Gods'' (1901) *

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much ...

: '' The Light that Failed'' (January 1891) *

Emma Lazarus Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgism, Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which wa ...

(over 40 poems in the 1870s) *

Louis Sullivan Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago school (architecture), Chicago ...

: ''The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered'' (1896) *

Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope ( ; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the ''Chronicles of Barsetshire ...

: '' The Vicar of Bullhampton'' (serialized starting in July 1869) *

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...

: ''

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'' (July 1890)

Notable editors

*1886–1894:

Joseph Marshall Stoddart Joseph Marshall Stoddart (August 10, 1845 – February 25, 1921), was an American businessman, Editor of ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' from 1886 to 1894 and later of the ''New Science Review''. The son of Joseph Marshall Stoddart Sr, and Eliz ...

*1905-1914: Joseph Berg Esenwein

References

External links

{{wikisource
''Lippincott's'' at Project Gutenberg

UPenn Library listing of online volumes
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Early names

Notable authors

Notable editors

References

Further reading

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