''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 Associatio ...
''.
History
Charles Scribner I
Charles Scribner I (February 21, 1821 – August 26, 1871) was an American publisher who, with Isaac D. Baker (1819–1850), founded a publishing company that would eventually become Charles Scribner's Sons.
Early life
Scribner was born in New ...
,
Andrew Armstrong
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Early life
Born at Gallen Priory in County Offaly, he was the son of Edmund Armstrong and his wife Elizabeth, third daughter of Frederic ...
,
Arthur Peabody
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Peabody was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He graduated fr ...
, 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 Associatio ...
'' 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
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'' 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
Truman C. Everts's ''Thirty-Seven Days of Peril'' was also published within the pages of ''Scribner's Monthly''.
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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