Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was a 19th-century literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915, when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916.
![]() One page of the issue dated July 1884, apparently as Vol. VIII, No. 8 | |
Frequency | Monthly |
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First issue | 1868 |
Final issue | 1916 |
Company | J. B. Lippincott & Co. (to 1914) |
Country | United States |
Based in | Philadelphia |
Language | English |
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 ProQuest.
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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
edit- 1868–1870: Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education
- 1871–1885: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
Notable authors
editLippincott's published several notable authors of the day, including:
- Gertrude Atherton: Doomswoman (1892)
- Willa Cather
- Florence Earle Coates, Philadelphia poet whose poetry was featured nearly five dozen[1] times in Lippincott's between 1885 and 1915.
- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of the Four (February 1890)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Sport of the Gods (1901)
- Rudyard Kipling: The Light that Failed (January 1891)
- Emma Lazarus (over 40 poems in the 1870s)
- Louis Sullivan: The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
- Anthony Trollope: The Vicar of Bullhampton (serialized starting in July 1869)
- Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (July 1890)
Notable editors
edit- 1886–1894: Joseph Marshall Stoddart
- 1905-1914: Joseph Berg Esenwein
References
edit- ^ Bohm, Sonja N., comp. The Published Works of Florence Earle Coates (Magazines). 2009. Print.
Further reading
edit- Publication history from OCLC's WorldCat Database and American Periodicals Series (APS) Online.
- Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodicals