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Our Victorian Magazine Collection: Windsor Magazine

Home > About Our Victorian Magazines > Windsor Magazine VictorianVoices.net has made all our volumes of Windsor Magazine available on Archive.org. Visit the magazine pages for download links, or visit our magazine download page to see all available magazines. The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated general-interest magazine. It was founded in 1895 by Ward Lock & Co., and ran until September 1939. It's becoming another of our favorite, but hard-to-find, magazines - it has lovely articles, entertaining fiction, and marvelous illustrations. In her lengthy article on the magazine (referenced below), Catharine Vaughan-Pow notes that "From its first issue, the magazine perceived itself as a periodical which was read throughout the Empire by a diverse audience which was nonetheless united in its concern for the well-being of the Empire and its desire for a high-quality periodical. The Foreword to the first number makes it clear that the magazine’s loyalties are apparent even in the title, as the editors refer to it as a debutante which is 'Making its obeisance to its Sovereign and to the public alike, mingling devotion to the gracious lady on the throne and to her three direct heirs, whose portraits are here presented with loyalty to some of the best and widest interests of her subjects'." Windsor Magazine is the place to go for articles on the people of the late Victorian world, including authors, musicians, athletes, politicians, and royalty. The magazine is filled with interviews, focusing on the celebrities of the day. It's also the place to look for more lighthearted fiction, including a host of detective stories such as Arthur Morrison's series, "The Dorrington Deed Box." (Morrison was the creator of the detective Martin Hewitt, whose adventures were featured in The Strand.) In a curious case of how things overlap in the Victorian world, the magazine's initial editor was Flora Klickmann, whose name also appears on many of the interviews (particularly of musicians). Later, Klickmann would go on to become the editor of The Girl's Own Paper, which is the magazine that started me on the path to create VictorianVoices.net in the first place! Volumes of Windsor are semi-annual, running January to June (A) and July to December (B). MORE INFORMATION: The Windsor Magazine (1895-1901) – Indexes to Fiction http://victorianfictionresearchguides.org/the-windsor-magazine/

View the Issues On This Site: 1896A 1896B 1897A 1897B 1898A 1898B 1899B 1900B 1902A 1903A