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Guides to & Bibliographies for 19th Century Popular Magazines and Journals

Need to know what titles were published in this time period? Looking for background information on a nineteenth-century magazine or journal? Consult one of the following or ask a librarian for help.

  • African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. Ed. James P. Danky. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998.
    REF PN4882.5 .A3470 1998
    Includes information about popular magazines.
  • American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals. Ed. David E.E. Sloane. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987.
    REF PN4880 .A46 1987
  • American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Ed. Edward E. Chielens. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.
    REF PS201 .A430 1986
  • American Mass-Market Magazines. Ed. Alan Nourie and Barbara Nourie. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990.
    LC Reference REF PN4877 .A48 1990
  • Black Journals of the United States. Walter C. Daniel. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982.
    REF PN4882.5 .D36 1982
  • British Literary Magazines: The Romantic Age, 1789-1836. Ed. Alvin Sullivan. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983.
    REF PN5124 .L6 B74 1983 v. 2
  • British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913. Ed. Alvin Sullivan. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.
    REF 5124 .L6 B74 1983 v.3
  • The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
    This title is now in its third edition.
    • The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999- .
      Reference R 016.82 C17 1999
      • Vol. 4: 1800-1900
        Includes a section on "Newspapers and Magazines" that lists the magazines and reviews published in the period as well as critical studies about them.
  • Consumer Magazines of the British Isles. Ed. Sam G. Riley. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
    REF PN5124 .P4 C58 1993
  • The Conservative Press in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Ronald Lora and William Henry Longton. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
  • Index to City and Regional Magazines of the United States. Comp. Sam G. Riley and Gary W. Selnow. New York: Greenwood, 1989.
    REF PN4877 .R520 1989
    See Appendix A: "Representative List of Geographically Identified Magazines, 1743-1949."
  • Index to Southern Periodicals. Comp. Sam G. Riley. New York: Greenwood, 1986.
    REF PN4893 .R554 1986
  • Magazines for Libraries. Ed. Cheryl La Guardia. 16th ed. New Providence, NJ: ProQuest, 2008.
    Reference Desk Z6941 .M23 2008
  • Magazines of the American South. Sam G. Riley. New York: Greenwood, 1986.
    REF PN4893 .R54 1986
  • Popular Religious Magazines of the United States. Ed. P. Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
    REF PN4888 .R4 P67 1995
  • Regional Interest Magazines of the United States. Ed. Sam G. Riley and Gary W. Selnow. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
    REF PN4878.7.R44 1991
  • The Religious Press in Britain, 1760-1900. Josef L. Altholz. New York: Greenwood, 1989.
    Little Library Stacks 070.4 A467r
  • Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society. Ed. J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1994.
    Reference R 052 V6452
  • The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900: Series 2. Ed. John S. North. 20 vols. Waterloo, Ontario: North Waterloo Academic Press, 2003.
    REF Z6956 .E5 W37 2003
    This directory provides descriptions of Victorian periodicals as well as many title page facsimiles.
  • Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines. Ed. Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
    REF 4879 .W6 1995
  • Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues. Ed. Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
    REF PN4879 .W614 1996