Alexander Strahan

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'''Alexander Strahan''' (1833-1918) was a 19th century publisher. His company, Alexander Strahan & Co., based at [[Ludgate Hill]] in London, published what was arguably<ref name="victorianweb"></ref> 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]]<ref name="keganpaul">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>. He started his publishing business in Edinburgh in 1858.<ref>https://ift.tt/2T9OQd8> 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."<ref name="keganpaul" /> One of his financial backers was [[Seymour King|Sir Henry Seymour King]], through whom Strahan made a lucrative deal with the poet [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]].<ref name="keganpaul" /><ref name="juneshagen">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

===List of periodicals===
* ''[[Good Words]]'' (established 1860)
* ''[[Argosy (UK magazine)|Argosy]]'' (established 1865)
* The ''Contemporary Review'' (established 1866)
* ''Good Words for the Young'' (retitled ''Good Things for the Young'')
* ''Saint Paul's Magazine''
* ''The Sunday Magazine''
* ''The Day of Rest: An Illustrated Journal of Sunday Reading'' (established 1872)<ref name="kirberger">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1833 births]]
[[Category:1918 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century publishers (people)]]
[[Category:19th-century Scottish people]]
[[Category:19th-century Scottish Presbyterians]]

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