Strand Magazine is a monthly illustrated fiction magazine founded by George News . It was published in the UK from January 1891 to March 1950 . In just 59 years, 711 issues have been released. Authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle , Agatha Christie , P.G. Woodhouse , Herbert Wells , Georges Simenon and other classics of the detective, adventure and fantasy genres were published in the journal.
| Strand magazine | |
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| Specialization | Fiction |
| Periodicity | |
| Tongue | English |
| Founders | |
| A country |  Great Britain |
| Publisher | . |
| Edition History | January 1891 - March 1950 |
| Established | 1891 |
| Web site | www.strandmag.com |
The magazine was very popular from the very beginning, the first issues were published in circulations of up to 300,000 copies, and by 1930, the monthly circulation reached 500,000 copies. The editorial office of the magazine was located on Burley Street, near the intersection with Strand . For most of the existence of the magazine, its chief editor was Herbert Greenhaw Smith.
Since 1998, the magazine has been published again, now in quarterly issues. Its editorial office is located in Birmingham ( Michigan , USA ).
Content
Journal Contents
The magazine owed its popularity to the fact that a large number of stories by the most popular authors of that time were first published in The Strand Magazine . In addition, the stories were very high quality illustrated. For example, “ The Scandal in Bohemia ”, “ The Hound of the Baskervilles ” and many other works about Sherlock Holmes were first published here, with classic illustrations by Sidney Paget [1] . On the other hand, the editors of the magazine had a certain influence on the content and format of the stories about the famous detective [2] . Herbert Wells was also published for the first time in the magazine.
In the third issue of the magazine, an illustration was published, belonging to the pen of Queen Victoria - a sketch of the portrait of her first child [3] .
Revived in 1998, the magazine also specializes in the first publications of previously unreleased works, including the stories of Agatha Christie and Tennessee Williams [4] [5] [6] .
Puzzles
The magazine was famous not only for illustrated stories, but also for puzzles, many of which were conceptually new for their time. The first editor of the puzzles section ( English Perplexities ) was the mathematician Henry Dudeney, inventor of the numerical crossword puzzle [7] and the author of the article “Psychology of love for riddles” [8] [9] , which analyzed the high demand for print puzzles. Dudeney edited Puzzles from 1910 until his death in 1930. From 1930, J. G. Savage and W. T. Williams became editors. In 1935, they created and published one of the most famous numerical puzzles called the Little Pig Farm [10] .
Design
In most cases, the cover of the magazine depicted a view of the church of Saint-Mary-le-Strand, first from the intersection of Strand and Burley, which is reflected in the plate with the street name and house number. Later, when the newsroom moved to Southampton Street, the address on the plate also changed. The street in the illustration was decorated with a garland with the letters The Strand Magazine . Illustration by George Charles Haité . The cover of The Strand Musical Magazine , which was published by the same publishing house, was similarly designed.
Due to the expiration of the period of protection of copyright and related rights to some issues of the magazine, The Internet Archive scanned the first 384 issues of the magazine from the libraries of the University of Michigan , Indiana University and Princeton [11] .
Notes
- ↑ Strand Mag History . Strand Magazine Date of treatment December 25, 2015.
- ↑ Andrew Lycett. Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes . - UK: Hachett, 2011 .-- 576 p.
- ↑ The Strand Magazine (Volume 1, Issue 3 ) . Internet Archive. Date of treatment December 25, 2015.
- ↑ Willis, Chris history of the Strand Magazine . Strandmag.com. Date of treatment March 20, 2014.
- ↑ Lost Agatha Christie story to be published in US . Reuters (November 10, 2009). Date of treatment March 20, 2014.
- ↑ Unpublished Tennessee Williams Story to Appear . Date of treatment March 26, 2012.
- ↑ Henry Dudeney. 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems. - New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967 .-- 442 p.
- ↑ Henry Dudeney. The psychology of puzzle crazes. - The Nineteenth Century, 1926 .-- 11 p.
- ↑ Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi . Cambridge University Press. Date of treatment December 25, 2015.
- ↑ The Little Pigley Farm . Date of treatment December 25, 2015.
- ↑ The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly . Internet Archive. Date of treatment December 25, 2015.