{{short description|British pulp magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox magazine |title = The Grand Magazine |image_file =Grand Magazine Feb 1916.jpg |image_size =220px |image_caption =Cover of ''Grand Magazine'' for February 1916 |editor = Alderson Anderson, 1905–1910 |frequency = Monthly |circulation = |category = |company = George Newnes Ltd |publisher = |firstdate = February 1905 |country = UK |language = English |issn = |finaldate = April 1940 |finalnumber = 422 }}
'''''The Grand Magazine''''' was the first British pulp magazine. It was published monthly between February 1905 and April 1940.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Grand Magazine|url=http://www.philsp.com/data/data248.html|work=Magazine Data|accessdate=13 October 2014}}</ref> Published by George Newnes Ltd, it initially emulated Newnes's highly successful ''Strand Magazine'', featuring a mix of fiction and non-fiction. In 1908, it was renamed ''The Grand Magazine of Fiction''.<ref name="Conrad">{{cite web|title=The Grand Magazine|url=http://www.conradfirst.net/view/periodical?id=101|publisher=Uppsala University|accessdate=16 February 2011|archive-date=18 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918135421/http://www.conradfirst.net/view/periodical?id=101|url-status=live}}</ref>
''The New York Times'' greeted the appearance of the new magazine with the comment that "this is a promising periodical, containing much that will commend itself to the decent popular taste", and added that "Mr Herbert Greenhough Smith, who has been the editor of The Strand Magazine, occupies the same post on the new periodical".<ref>{{cite news|title=A New English Magazine|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 February 1905}}</ref>
Although Herbert Greenhough Smith was associated with the launch of the magazine, the first editor, until 1910, was Alderson Anderson.<ref name="Conrad" /><ref>{{cite book|title=The Writers' and Artists' Year-book|year=1906|publisher=Adam & Charles Black|location=London}}</ref>
In its first decade, ''The Grand'' carried fiction by such authors as P. G. Wodehouse, Edgar Wallace, Rafael Sabatini, Talbot Mundy, H. C. Bailey, E. W. Hornung, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ruby M. Ayres, F. St. Mars, Crosbie Garstin and Herman George Scheffauer.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Grand Magazine|url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k01/k01470.htm#A3 |work=The FictionMags Index |accessdate=14 December 2025}}</ref> The magazine also serialised H. G. Wells' ''The Passionate Friends: A Novel''.<ref>Blek, Patrick Scott, ''Empires of Print: Adventure Fiction in the Magazines, 1899-1919'' Taylor and Francis, 2017 {{ISBN|1-31-718505-6}} (p.196).</ref> Later contributors to ''The Grand'' included Agatha Christie, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Baroness Orczy,<ref name="Conrad" /> E. F. Benson, Ernest Bramah, Bertram Atkey, and A. M. Burrage.<ref>Adrian, Jack. "Introduction", to A. M, Burrage, ''Warning Whispers''. Ash-Tree Press. {{ISBN|1-899562-84-2}} 1999.,(pp. ix- xiii)</ref>
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