Good Words for the Young

Good Words for the Young

Good Words for the Young front cover, 1870.
Editor	Norman Macleod, George Macdonald
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Strahan and Co. Magazine Publishers, London
Founder	Alexander Strahan
Founded	1869
Final issue	1877
Country	Scotland
Language	English

Good Words for the Young was a 19th-century six penny monthly periodical ^[1] established in Scotland in 1869 by the Scottish publisher Alexander Strahan ^[2] that was specifically for children. ^[3] Its first editor was Norman Macleod. ^[4]

Introduction

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Many of the stories published in Good Words were written by established authors that were serialised in magazine form. ^[6] One such author was Scottish George Macdonald for example, whose work At the back of the north wind was serialised from November 1868 to October 1969 and was illustrated by Arthur Hughes. ^[6]

Gallery

• 
  "Mercy" by Arthur Hughes for the magazine in 1871, page 145
• 
  "Don Jose's Mule" by Arthur Boyd Houghton. Completed in 1870 in page 28
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  "Wandering in the wood" by Hubert von Herkomer for the magazine in 1870, page 44
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  "Barbara's Pet Lamb" by Arthur Hughes. It was used in the magazine in 1871, page 100

See also

• Good Words

References

1. White, Gleeson (1903). English Illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-70. Westminster, London: Archibald Constable and Co. p. 77.
2. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron (July 1987). The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1851-1870. Vol. II. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 506. ISBN   978-0-674-52584-9.
3. Wolff, Robert Lee (1 January 1961). Golden Key a Study of the Fiction Of George Macdonald. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 111.
4. Oakley, Phd, Maroussia (26 April 2013). "Good Words for the Young". The Victorian Web. Providence, Rhode Island, United States: VictorianWeb. Archived from the original on 1 December 2024. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
5. Lang, Marjory (1980). "Childhood's Champions: Mid-Victorian Children's Periodicals and the Critics". Victorian Periodicals Review. 13 (1/2): 17–31. ISSN   0709-4698. JSTOR   20081920.
6. Goldman, Paul (1994). Victorian illustrated books 1850-1870 : the heyday of wood-engraving, The Robin de Beaumont Collection. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press. p. 25. ISBN   978-0-7141-2600-5.