Английская Википедия:Alexander Strahan
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Alexander Strahan (1833–1918) was a 19th-century publisher. His company, Alexander Strahan & Co., based at Ludgate Hill in London, published what was arguably[1] one of the dominant periodicals in the 1860s, a monthly magazine called Good Words.
Early life and career
Born in Edinburgh, he was a Scottish Presbyterian.[2] He started his publishing business in Edinburgh in 1858.[3] He moved to London in 1862 and "widened his interest to include what his modern day biographer Patricia Sebrebrnik identifies as the literature of Christian social reform."[2] One of his financial backers was Sir Henry Seymour King, through whom Strahan made a lucrative deal with the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.[2][4]
He married Lisbeth Gooch Séguin, a prolific travel writer, children's author, and contributor to periodicals.[5]
List of periodicals
- Good Words (established 1860)
- The Sunday Magazine (established 1864)
- Argosy (established 1865)
- The Contemporary Review (established 1866)
- Good Words for the Young (retitled Good Things for the Young)
- Saint Paul's Magazine
- The Day of Rest: An Illustrated Journal of Sunday Reading (established 1872)[6]
References
Srebrnik, Patricia Thomas (1986) - Alexander Strahan, Victorian Publisher (University of Michigan Press)
