Alexander Strahan


Alexander Strahan was a 19th-century publisher. His company, Alexander Strahan & Co., based at Ludgate Hill in London, published what was arguably 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. He started his publishing business in Edinburgh in 1858. 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." One of his financial backers was Sir Henry Seymour King, through whom Strahan made a lucrative deal with the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
He married Lisbeth Gooch Séguin, a prolific travel writer, children's author, and contributor to periodicals.

List of periodicals