# Cheap Magazine

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The ***Cheap Magazine***, subtitled **"The Poor Man's Fireside Companion"**, was a fourpenny [Haddington](/source/Haddington,_East_Lothian) monthly published from 1813 to 1815 by George Miller (1771–1835), an [East Lothian](/source/East_Lothian) printer. As "one of the first attempts to diffuse a pure and useful literature among the less educated portion of Scotland", this effort foreshadowed later publications such as *[Chambers's Edinburgh Journal](/source/Chambers's_Edinburgh_Journal)* and the *[Penny Magazine](/source/Penny_Magazine)*.[1] Yet a cheap price required a large circulation, and Miller's attempt to sustain a large readership without taking any definite religious position ended in financial failure.[2]

## References

1. [Timperley, Charles Henry](/source/Charles_Henry_Timperley), *A Dictionary of Printers and Printing*, 1839, p. 845

1. [Altick, Richard D.](/source/Richard_Altick), *The English Common Reader*, 2nd ed., 1998, p. 320

- George Miller, *Later Struggles in the Journey of Life; or, the Afternoon of my Days: being the Retrospection of a Sexagenarian*, 1833
- J. O., *Notes and Queries* 6th series, 5 (1882), pp. 495–6
- T. Fisher Unwin, *Notes and Queries* 10th series, 12 (1909), pp. 1–3, 42–44, 474

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