The Grand Magazine

The Grand Magazine was the first British pulp magazine. It was published monthly between February 1905 and April 1940.^[1] Published by George Newnes Ltd, it initially emulated Newnes's highly successful Strand Magazine, featuring a mix of fiction and non-fiction. In 1908, it was renamed The Grand Magazine of Fiction.^[2]

The Grand Magazine

Cover of Grand Magazine for February 1916
Editor	Alderson Anderson, 1905–1910
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	February 1905
Final issue Number	April 1940 422
Company	George Newnes Ltd
Country	UK
Language	English

The New York Times greeted the appearance of the new magazine with the comment that "this is a promising periodical, containing much that will commend itself to the decent popular taste", and added that "Mr Herbert Greenhough Smith, who has been the editor of The Strand Magazine, occupies the same post on the new periodical".^[3]

Although Herbert Greenhough Smith was associated with the launch of the magazine, the first editor, until 1910, was Alderson Anderson.^[2][4]

In its first decade, The Grand carried fiction by such authors as P. G. Wodehouse, Edgar Wallace, Rafael Sabatini, Talbot Mundy, H. C. Bailey, E. W. Hornung, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ruby M. Ayres, F. St. Mars, Crosbie Garstin and Herman George Scheffauer. The magazine also serialised H. G. Wells' The Passionate Friends: A Novel.^[5] Later contributors to The Grand included Agatha Christie, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Baroness Orczy,^[2] E. F. Benson, Ernest Bramah, Bertram Atkey, and A. M. Burrage.^[6]

References

1. "The Grand Magazine". Magazine Data. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
2. "The Grand Magazine". Uppsala University. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
3. "A New English Magazine". The New York Times. 18 February 1905.
4. The Writers' and Artists' Year-book. London: Adam & Charles Black. 1906.
5. Blek, Patrick Scott, Empires of Print: Adventure Fiction in the Magazines, 1899-1919 Taylor and Francis, 2017 ISBN 1-31-718505-6 (p.196).
6. Adrian, Jack. "Introduction", to A. M, Burrage, Warning Whispers. Ash-Tree Press. ISBN 1-899562-84-2 1999.,(pp. ix- xiii)