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{{Short description|Defunct weekly magazine}}
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'''''Chambers's Edinburgh Journal''''' was a weekly 16-page [[magazine]] started by [[William Chambers (publisher)|William Chambers]] in 1832. The first edition was dated 4 February 1832,{{r|Hancher}} and priced at one penny. Topics included history, religion, language, and science. William was soon joined as joint editor by his brother [[Robert Chambers (journalist)|Robert]], who wrote many of the articles for the early issues, and within a few years the journal had a circulation of 84,000.{{r|AboutUs}} From 1847 to 1849 it was edited by [[William Henry Wills (journalist)|William Henry Wills]]. In 1854 the title was changed to ''Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts'',{{sfnp|Clemm|2008|p=74|ps=}} and changed again to ''Chambers's Journal'' at the end of 1897.▼
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▲'''''Chambers's Edinburgh Journal''''' was a weekly 16-page [[magazine]] started by [[William Chambers (publisher)|William Chambers]] in 1832.<ref name="tpc">{{cite book|author=Teresa Pinto Coelho|title=Eça de Queirós and the Victorian Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t7jCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|access-date=1 November 2015|year=2014|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=978-1-85566-268-1|page=36}}</ref> The first edition was dated 4 February 1832,{{r|Hancher}} and priced at [[Penny (British pre-decimal coin)|one penny]]. Topics included history, religion, language, and science. William was soon joined as joint editor by his brother [[Robert Chambers (journalist)|Robert]], who wrote many of the articles for the early issues, and within a few years the journal had a circulation of 84,000.{{r|AboutUs}} From 1847 to 1849, it was edited by [[William Henry Wills (journalist)|William Henry Wills]]. In 1854 the title was changed to ''Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and
The journal was produced in Edinburgh until the late 1850s, by which time the author [[James Payn]] had taken over as editor, and production was moved to London. Serialised fiction from major authors, including Payn himself, became one of the journal's major attractions following his arrival. Among its long-standing contributors was [[Camilla Dufour Crosland]] up to her death in 1895.<ref>''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'', eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 251.</ref>
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*{{citation |last1=Baker |first1=William |last2=Womack |first2=Kenneth |title=A Companion to the Victorian Novel |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-313-31407-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/companiontovicto0000unse_f5a2 }}
*{{citation |last=Clemm |first=Sabine |title=Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood: Mapping the World in Household Words |year=2008 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-95846-2
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==Further reading==
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==External links==
* [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008312872 Fulltext] via HathiTrust
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110519064236/http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_journal.php?jid=34 Novels serialized in Chambers's Journal between 1858 and 1893]
* [[gutenberg:bookshelf/210|Books in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal]] at Project Gutenberg
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