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    Harper’s Magazine:   (about)
    Harper’s New Monthly Magazine—USA; Jun. 1850- ; Harper & Brothers, New York; retitled Harper’s Monthly Magazine from Dec. 1900, then became simply Harper’s Magazine from Mar. 1913; standard format, illustrated—became the model for the late 19th-century monthly magazine; circulation 50,000 after first six months; editors Henry J. Raymond (1850-1855), Alfred H. Guernsey (1856-1869), Henry Mills Alden (1869-1919—a span of 50 years), Thomas B. Wells (1919-1931); authors included Henry James, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Booth Tarkington, Frank R. Stockton, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edward Everett Hale, Sarah Orne Jewett, Brander Matthews, Howard Pyle; indexed, Wells (to 1900).
    Details supplied by David Pringle.

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