''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
''The Century Magazine'' was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Associati ...
''.
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''.
''Scribner's Monthly'' absorbed the second incarnation of ''
Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art''. 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
''The Century Magazine'' was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Associati ...
'' 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''.
Contributors
Notable contributors have included
Charles Barnard,
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,
Truman C. Everts,
Edmund Gosse
Sir Edmund William Gosse (; 21 September 184916 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhood ...
,
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1886), ''A Little Princess'' (1905), a ...
,
Sidney Lanier,
John Muir
John Muir ( ; April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the national park, National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologi ...
and others.
Footnotes
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
In JSTOR
External links
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''Scribner's Monthly''at Cornell University Library, vols. 1-5, 7-22 (1870–1881)
Holland Collection of Literary Letters, University of Colorado Boulder
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