Research Guides: Victorian Literature: Victorian Periodicals

Victorian Periodicals Online

Many Victorian periodicals are also available in the HathiTrust Digital Library, Google Books, and the Internet Archive.

Gale Primary Sources
1600-1925. Platform that allows cross-searching of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Times Digital Archive, Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926, The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926, The Economist Historical Archive: 1843-2014, and Archives Unbound....more.

Dickens Journals Online
Includes All the Year Round (1859-1870), Household Words (1850-1859), Household Narrative of Current Events (1850-1855), and Household Words Almanac (1856-1857).
NCSE: Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
Includes Monthly Repository (1806-1837), Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Northern Star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English Woman's Journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publisher's Circular (1880-1890).
Internet Library of Early Journals
Includes Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863), Notes and Queries (1849-1869), and The Builder (1843-1852).
Academy
1869-1902
Bentley's Miscellany
1837-1868
British Medical Journal
Archive of the British Medical Journal from 1840-2012.
Contemporary Review
1866-2000
Edinburgh Review
1802-1929
Longman's Magazine
1882-1905
MacMillan's Magazine
1859-1906
Temple Bar
1860-1906

19th Century British Pamphlets

JSTOR
This primarily archival journal resource and current scholarship program journals provide access to full-text of approximately 1200 unique (does NOT count previous titles for same periodical) journal titles (as of September 2019). These titles are contained in 10 collections: Arts & Sciences I through VIII, the Life Sciences Collection, and 19th Century British Pamphlets....more.

Selected Victorian Periodicals in the SLU Libraries (Print & Microfilm)

Click on links for holdings information. Search the SLU Libraries Catalog by Journal Title to find other Victorian periodicals held by the SLU Libraries.

19th Century American Periodicals

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search across the following historical newspapers at one time: Chicago Defender (July 1909-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1994), St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-2003), and The New York Times (1851-2014)...more.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
19th Century newspapers from cities and rural areas throughout the United States... more.

Indexes to Victorian Periodicals

Periodicals Index Online
Indexes articles in over 4,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 2005. Articles published 1665-2005. Full text is available for over 500 of the journals indexed.
Science in the 19th Century Periodical (SciPer Index)
Search the science content of several British nineteenth-century general periodicals. Articles published 1800-1900.
At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901
Biographic and bibliographic database of nineteenth-century British fiction. Includes serialization information from over 150 periodicals.
The Periodical Poetry Index: A Research Database of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Database of citations to English-language poems published in nineteenth-century periodicals.
Quarterly Review Index
Index of the Quarterly Review, 1809-1824.
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine
An electronic version of James M. Kuist's The Nichols File of the Gentleman's Magazine plus two supplements.

Directory of Victorian Periodicals

The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 by Michael Wolff, John S. North, and Dorothy Deering
Call Number: Ref. Z 6956 .G6 W63
Lists newspaper and periodical titles published in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales between 1824 and 1900. Available in the Pius Library Reference collection, Level 5 East.