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Our Victorian Magazine Collection:  The The English Illustrated Magazine

Home > About Our Victorian Magazines > English Illustrated Magazine VictorianVoices.net has made all our volumes of English Illustrated Magazine available on Archive.org. Visit the individual magazine pages for download links, or visit our magazine download page to see all available magazines. Here, in its entirety, is what Wikipedia has to say about this charming publication: "The English Illustrated Magazine was a monthly publication that ran for 359 issues between October 1883 and August 1913. Features included travel, topography, and a large amount of fiction and were contributed by writers such as Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Stanley J. Weyman and Max Pemberton. Illustrators included Walter Crane, Carlo Perugini, Alma-Tadema, Louis Davis and Louis Wain. When it began publication, it was the only illustrated competitor to Cassell's Magazine." I'm not quite certain what that last comment means, in that this was certainly not the only illustrated magazine on the market in this period. By this time, The Girl's Own Paper was becoming increasingly a general-interest publication, and it was lavishly illustrated, as were many other periodicals at the time. There may not be a great deal of information online about this publication, but it is charming. At some point, we hope to collect more of these. In keeping with its title, it features a great deal of decorative illustration, in the form of page headers and footers (often by well-known artists). Volumes in later years included a great deal of photography, comparable to The Strand and similar publications. In terms of content, there is not a great deal to distinguish this from any other general interest publication of its day. It covers history, nature, current events, the arts, architecture, contemporary celebrities and historical figures, royalty and so forth. And, like most magazines of the day, it offers a great deal of short fiction and many serialized novels, as well as poetry. Additional copies of The English Illustrated Magazine are available on Archive.org. Unfortunately, Archive.org's scans provide no information beyond the title of the magazine itself, so it's impossible to determine which volumes are available without actually opening each one to find out the dates! Volumes are semi-annual; those labeled "A" run from October to March and those labeled "B" run from April to September.

View the Issues On This Site: 1890A 1892A 1895A 1895B 1899A