Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mazagine

History of Blackwood’s:

  • A monthly magazine published in Edinburgh, Scotland, by William Blackwood.
  • First year of publication was 1817, the last being over one hundred years later in 1980.
  • Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was first published in BEM in 1899.
  • Full of critical essays, reviews, prose, and sections of novels.
William Blackwood

Themes of Blackwood’s we have focused on:

  • Turn of the century 1895-1905
  • Morals, ethics, manners within novels – magazine teaches these lessons
    • Shown throughout the novels we have read so far this semester
Printing press, 19th-century illustration. This is a double printing typography printing press. Artwork published in 1880.

Below you will find our selected articles and some notes on the reading.

“The New Humanitarianism” vol. 163 (1898)

“The Mystics” vol. 177 (1905)

“An Anthropomorphic Christian” vol. 166 (1899)