Research Guide

Victorian Periodicals
This guide is designed as an aid in locating Victorian literary periodocals. Many of these titles are on microfilm or are located in the Special Collections Department on the basement floor of Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

1. Edinburgh Review (quarterly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; B25
        vol. 1-3 filed under East Anglia; reel 427
        vol. 4-211 filed under Edinburgh Review; reels 428-457
        sporadic holdings in Special Collections--AP 4 .E3

2. Quarterly Review (quarterly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; B97
        vol. 1-205 (1809-1906); reels 646-675
        sporadic holdings in Special Collections--AP 4 .Q2

3. Westminster Review (quarterly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 240E
        vol. 1-181 (1824-1914); reels 827-852
        sporadic holdings in Special Collections--AP4 .W5

4. Prospective Review (quarterly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 230E
        vol. 1-11 (1845-1855)

5. Foreign Quarterly Review (quarterly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; BG18
        vol. 1-4 (1827-1829) filed under Belgravia; reel 70
        vol. 5-37 (1829-1846) filed under Foreign Quarterly Review; reels 71-75

6. Blackwood's (monthly)
        RBD Library second floor--AP4 .B6

7. Fraser's (monthly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; BG19
        vol. 1-80 (1830-1869) filed under Anti Gallican; reels 1-15
        new series vol. 1-26 (1870-1882) filed under Fraser's; reels 16-20
        ***becomes Longman's Magazine
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; BG29
        vol. 1-46 (1882-1905) filed under Longman's; reels 21-28

8. Cornhill Magazine (quarterly)
        RBD Library second floor--AP4 .C8 (1860-1975)

9. Macmillan's Magazine (monthly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 236E
        vol. 1-92 (1859-1905); reels 1-11

10. Examiner (weekly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 7E
        no. 1-3813 (1808-1881); reels 1-41, 41a-43

11. Literary Gazette (weekly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; in boxes at end of series no. 1-44 (1856); reel 918
        new series vol.1-8 (1858-1862); reels 919-920

12. Spectator (weekly)
        RBD Library closed stacks--folio DA 20 .S64 (1882-1930)
        ask at third floor reference desk

13. Athenaeum (weekly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; B7
        vol. 115-4737 (1830-1921); reels 526-567

14. The Leader (weekly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 198E
        vol. 1-11 (1850-1860) filed under Saturday Analyst and Leader

15. Academy (weekly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; BL1
        vol 1-62 (1869-1902); reels 164-176
        sporadic holdings in Special Collections--folio AP4 .A15

16. Monthly Chronicle (monthly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 205E
        vol. 1-7 (1838-1841)

17. National Review (quarterly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; BG33
        vol. 1-3 (1855-1856) filed under Monthly Review; reel 240
        vol. 4-17 (1857-1864) filed under National Review; reels 241-243
        new series #1 (1864); reel 243

18. Fortnightly Review (monthly after first year)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; B107
        vol. 1-86 (1865-1906); reels 785-799
        vol. 87-141 (1907-1934); reels 857-868

19. Contemporary Review (monthly)
        RBD Library closed stacks--DA 20 .C65 vol 53-239 (1888-1981)
        Ask at third floor reference desk
        vol. 1-54 (1866-1888); filed with microfilm journals

20. Nineteenth Century (monthly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; B88
        vol.1-48 (1877-1900); reels 505-519

21. North British Review (monthly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 109E
        vol. 1-53 (1844-1871); reels 1-8

22. New Quarterly Review (quarterly)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; in boxes at end of series
        vol.1-10 (1825-1861); reels 921-922

23. Critic (frequency varies)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 191E
        vol. 1 (1843-1844); reel 1
        new series vol. 1-25 (1844-1863); reels 1-8

24. Speaker (weekly)
        microfilm series--Early British Periodicals; BG43
        vol. 1-3 (1890-1891) filed under New Quarterly Review; reel 377
        vol. 4-20 (1891-1894) filed under Speaker; reels 378-383
        new series vol 1-5 (1899-1907) filed under Speaker; reels 383-388

25. The Times (daily, except Sunday)
        microfilm July 1785-June 1996 (April 16-may 31, 1859, reported lost)
        Filed with microfilm newspapers under Times (London)

26. The Christian Remembrancer (monthly 1819-1844, quarterly 1844-1868)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 190E
        vol. 1-22 (1819-1844), new series vol. 1-56 (1844-1868); reels 1-13

27. Sharpe's London Journal (weekly 1845-1847, monthly 1848-1870)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 152E
        vol. 1-new series vol. 37 (1845-1870); reels 1-9

28. Rambler (weekly Jan.-Aug. 1848; monthly-Feb. 1859; bi-monthly-May 1862)
        microfilm series--English Literary Periodicals; 213E
        vol. 1-3rd series vol 6 (1848-1862); reels 1-6

Early British Periodicals runs in three sets--General, II, III. The reel numbers run in one series throughout the three sets. Ignore the sets and look for the correct reel number.

English Literary Periodicals gives each periodical a number. Look on the boxes for the correct set number. Two periodicals do not have set numbers. They are filed at the end of the entire ELP series.