Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was a 19th-century literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915, when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916.
Lippincott's published original works, general articles, and literary criticism. It is indexed in the Reader's Guide Retrospective database, and the full-text of many issues is available online from Project Gutenberg, and in various commercial databases such as the American Periodicals Series from ProQuest.
Lippincott's was published by J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia until 1914, then by McBride, Nast & Co. There were 96 semi-annual volumes. From 1881 to 1885 they were issued as vols. 1 to 10 "New Series" or "N.S." and bound such as "Old Series, Vol. XXVII – New Series, Vol. I" but the old series was resumed with January 1887 issued as volume 37, number 1.
Early names
- 1868–1870: Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education
- 1871–1885: ''Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science''
Notable authors
- Gertrude Atherton: Doomswoman
- Willa Cather
- Florence Earle Coates, Philadelphia poet whose poetry was featured nearly five dozen times in Lippincott's between 1885 and 1915.
- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of the Four
- Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Sport of the Gods
- Rudyard Kipling: The Light that Failed
- Emma Lazarus
- Louis Sullivan: The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered
- Anthony Trollope: The Vicar of Bullhampton
- Oscar Wilde: ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''
Notable editors
- 1886–1894: Joseph Marshall Stoddart
- 1905-1914: Joseph Berg Esenwein