Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

{{Short description|Defunct weekly magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Chambers's Edinburgh Journal | logo = | logo_size =  | image_file = Espy-6.jpg | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = 21 November, 1840, copy of the Chambers' Edinburgh Journal | frequency = Weekly | format = | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = William Chambers | founded = | firstdate = {{Start date and age|1832}} | finaldate = {{End date|1956}} | finalnumber = | company = W. & R. Chambers Publishers | based = London, UK | website =  | issn = | oclc = }}

'''''Chambers's Edinburgh Journal''''' was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832.<ref name="tpc">{{cite book|author=Teresa Pinto Coelho|title=Eça de Queirós and the Victorian Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t7jCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|access-date=1 November 2015|year=2014|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-85566-268-1|page=36}}</ref> The first edition was dated 4 February 1832,{{r|Hancher}} and priced at one penny. Topics included history, religion, language, and science. William was soon joined as joint editor by his brother Robert, who wrote many of the articles for the early issues, and within a few years the journal had a circulation of 84,000.{{r|AboutUs}} From 1847 to 1849, it was edited by William Henry Wills. In 1854 the title was changed to ''Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art'',{{sfnp|Clemm|2008|p=74|ps=none}} and changed again to ''Chambers's Journal'' at the end of 1897.

The journal was produced in Edinburgh until the late 1850s, by which time the author James Payn had taken over as editor, and production was moved to London. Serialised fiction from major authors, including Payn himself, became one of the journal's major attractions following his arrival. Among its long-standing contributors was Camilla Dufour Crosland up to her death in 1895.<ref>''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'', eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 251.</ref>

The journal continued to be published until 1956,{{sfnp|Baker|Womack|2002|pp=22–23|ps=none}} when it ceased publication.<ref name=tpc/>

==References== ===Citations=== {{reflist|30em|refs= <ref name="AboutUs"> {{cite web |title=About us |publisher=Chambers Harrap Publishers |url=http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/about/index.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122175152/http://chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/about/index.shtml |archive-date=22 January 2009 |access-date=3 April 2012 |mode=cs2}} </ref>

<ref name="Hancher"> {{cite web |last=Hancher |first=Michael |title=British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early Nineteenth Century 1831–1840 |url=http://mh.cla.umn.edu/britper4.html |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=20 December 2009 |mode=cs2}} </ref> }}

===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} * {{citation |last1=Baker |first1=William |last2=Womack |first2=Kenneth |title=A Companion to the Victorian Novel |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-313-31407-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/companiontovicto0000unse_f5a2}} * {{citation |last=Clemm |first=Sabine |title=Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood: Mapping the World in Household Words |year=2008 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-95846-2}} {{refend}}

==Further reading== * Sue Thomas: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150220190423/http://www.victoriansecrets.co.uk/victorian-fiction-research-guides/chambers-journal/ Indexes to Fiction in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, later Chambers's Journal, 3rd to 6th Series of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 1854–1910 – Victorian Fiction Research Guide]

==External links== * [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008312872 Fulltext] via HathiTrust *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110519064236/http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_journal.php?jid=34 Novels serialized in ''Chambers's Journal'' between 1858 and 1893] * Books in ''Chambers's Edinburgh Journal'' at Project Gutenberg

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