Blackwood's Magazine Bibliography

What follows is a list of articles and books dealing primarily with Blackwood's Magazine and its authors. While all attempts have been made to ensure this list is as comprehensive as possible, there will no doubt be gaps and individual items missing. We will be updating this list as information becomes available, so details of items readers feel should be added are appreciated, and can be sent care of Dr. David Finkelstein via Email

Pre-1950 | 1950-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-Present

Pre-1950

1850

James Hannay, Blackwood v. Carlyle: a vindication, London.

1871

Anon., "Blackwood's Magazine and the Poet Cowper," The Leisure Hour, 1871: 549-551.

1897-8

Margaret Oliphant and Mary Porter, Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and his Sons, 3 vols., Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood & Sons, 1897-8.

Sir George Douglas, The Blackwood Group, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1897.

1900

Isabella Blackwood, The Early House of Blackwood, privately printed, 1900.

1903

Max Batt, "Contributions to the History of English Opinion of German Literature: Gillies and Blackwood's Magazine," Modern Language Notes, 18.3 (March 1903): 65-69.

1904

Anon., "A Publishing Centenary: The Hundredth Birthday of the Historic House of Blackwood's," The Book Monthly, July 1904: 695-701.

1917

T.H.S. Escott, "What the Newspaper Owes to the Magazine," London Quarterly Review, 5th Series, 14.128 (1917): 62-71.

1929

David Lee Clark, "The Sources of Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum," Modern Language Notes, 44: 6 (June 1929): 349-56.

1933

Alan Lang Strout, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Wilson of Blackwood's Magazine, PMLA, 48 (1933): 100-128.

1934

Alan Lang Strout, "John Wilson, 'Champion' of Wordsworth," Modern Philology, 31.4 (May 1934): 383-394.

1936

Alan Lang Strout, "Concerning the Noctes Ambrosianae," Modern Language Notes, 51.8 (Dec. 1936): 493-504.

Alan Lang Strout, "John Wilson (Christopher North) as a Shakespeare Critic," Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 72 (1936): 93-123.

1938

Alan Lang Strout, "John Gibson Lockhart: Lockhart and Blackwood's Magazine," Notes and Queries, 175 (1938): 275-279.

1942

Ralph M. Wardle, "Outwitting Hazlitt," Modern Language Notes, 57: 6 (June 1942): 459-62.

Ralph M. Wardle, "Timothy Tickler's' Irish Blood," Review of English Studies: A Quarterly Journal of English Literature and the English Language, 18: 72 (Oct. 1942): 486-90.

1943

Ralph M. Wardle, "Who Was Morgan Odoherty?," Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 58: 3 (Sept. 1943): 716-27.

1946

Michael Sadleir, "Tales from Blackwood," Edinburgh Bibliographic Society Transaction, 2.4 (1946): 443-445.

1947

Philip B. Daghlian, "Byron's Observations on an Article in Blackwood's Magazine," Review of English Studies: A Quarterly Journal of English Literature and the English Language, 23: 90 (Apr. 1947): 123-30

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1950-1959

1950

Ralph M. Wardle, "The Motive for Byron's 'George Russell of A'," Modern Language Notes, 65: 3 (March 1950): 179-83.

1951

Ada B. Nisbet, "New Light on the Dickens-Poe Relationship," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 5.4 (March 1951): 295-302.

1954

Alan Lang Strout, "Knights of the Burning Epistle," Studia Neophilologica, 26 (1954): 77-98.

Alan Lang Strout, "Some Miscellaneous Letters Concerning "Blackwood's Magazine", Notes and Queries, May 1954: 216-217; July 1954: 309-312.

Frank D. Tredrey, The House of Blackwood, 1804-1954, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1954.

1955

William E. Buckler, Blackmore's Novels before 'Lorna Doone'," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 10.3 (Dec. 1955): 169-187.

Alan Lang Strout, "William Maginn as Gossip," Notes and Queries, June 1955: 263-265.

1957

Eugene Nolte, "David Macbeth Moir as Morgan Odoherty," Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 72: 4 (Sept. 1957): 803-06.

Alan Lang Strout, "Blunders About Blackwood," Notes and Queries, June 1957: 263-265; July 1957: 307-308.

1958

William Blackburn, Ed., Joseph Conrad: Letters to William Blackwood and David S Meldrum, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,1958.

1959

Alan Lang Strout, A Bibliography of Articles in Blackwood's Magazine 1817-1825, Texas: Texas Tech Press, 1959.

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1960-1969

1960

J. Lasley Dameron, "Hawthorne and Blackwood's Review of Goethe's Faust," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 19 (Spring 1960): 25.

Frank W. Fetter, "The Economic Articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and their Authors 1817-1853," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 7 (1960): 85-107; 213-231.

Robert C. Schweik, "The 'Peace of War" Passages in Tennyson's 'Maud'," Notes and Queries, Dec. 1960: 457-8.

1962

Irving Massey, "Mary Shelley, Walter Scott and "Maga"," Notes and Queries, Nov. 1962: 420-421.

Coleman O. Parson, "Scott's Prior Version of "The Tapestried Chamber"," Notes and Queries, Nov. 1962: 417-420.

1963

J. Lasley Dameron, "Poe and Blackwood's on the Art of Reviewing," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 31 (1963): 29-30.

Kenneth W. Davis, "George Henry Lewes's Introduction to the Blackwood Circle," English Language Notes, 1.2 (Dec. 1963): 113-114.

Owen J. Grundy, "R. L. S. in Greenwich Village," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 67 (1963): 152-154.

1964

Kenneth W. Davis, "A Bibliography of the Writings of William Henry Smith," Library, series 5, 19.1 (1966): 162-174.

1966

I. F. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War 1763-1984, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Robert A. and Vineta Colby, The Equivocal Virtue: Mrs. Oliphant and the Literary Marketplace, NY: Archaon Books, 1966.

Kenneth W. Davis, "A Note on the Ruskin-Blackwood's Controversy," Victorian Newsletter, 30 (Fall 1966): 26-7.

Brian M. Murray, "The Authorship of Some Unidentified or Disputed Articles in Blackwood's Magazine, Studies in Scottish Literature, 4 (1966-7): 144-154.

Alan Lang Strout, "Maga and the Ettrick Shepherd: Two unpublished letters of William Blackwood," Studies in Scottish Literature, 4.1 (July 1966): 48-52.

1968

J. Lasley Dameron, "Poe and Blackwood's Thomas Doubleday on the Art of Poetry," English Studies, 49 (1968): 540-542.

National Library of Scotland, Catalogue of Manuscripts acquired since 1925, Volume III: Manuscripts 4001-4940, Blackwood Papers 1805-1900, Edinburgh: HMSO, 1968.

1969

J. Lasley Dameron, "Poe and Blackwood's Alexander Smith on Truth and Poetry," Mississippi Quarterly, 22 (1969): 355-259.

Benjamin Lease, "Hawthorne and Blackwood's in 1849: Two unpublished letters," Jahrbuch fur Amerika Studien, 14 (1969): 152-154.

Benjamin Lease, "Sidney Lanier and Blackwood's Magazine: An Unpublished Letter," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 53 (1969): 521-523.

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1970-1979

1970

David H. Hirsh, "Another Source for 'The Pit and the Pendulum', Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture, 23 (1970): 35-43.

F.B. Pinion, "The Composition of 'The Return of the Native'," Times Literary Supplement, 21 August 1970: 931.

Jenny Stratford, "Blackwood's Revivificatus," Manuscripts, 22.2 (Spring 1970): 131-132.

1971

Brian M. Murray, "More Unidentified or Disputed Articles in Blackwood's Magazine, Studies in Scottish Literature, 9.2-3 (Oct.-Jan. 1971-2): 107-116.

Harvey Peter Sucksmith, "The Secret of Immediacy: Dickens' Debt to the Tale of Terror in Blackwood's," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 26 (Sept. 1971): 145-157.

1972

Gordon S. Haight, "New George Eliot Letters to John Blackwood," Times Literary Supplement, 10 March (1972): 281-82.

1973

Roland F. Anderson, "George Eliot Provoked John Blackwood and Chapter Seventeen of Adam Bede," Modern Philology, 71 (Aug. 1973): 39-47.

Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV, "Blackwood Articles a la Poe: How to Make a False Start Pay," Revue des Langues Vivantes, 39 (1973): 418-432.

W. J. McCormack, "J. Sheridan Le Fanu: Letters to William Blackwood and John Forster," Long Room, 8 (Autumn-Winter 1973): 29-36.

Michael Munday, "Jane Austen, Women Writers, and Blackwood's Magazine," Notes and Queries, 20 (1973): 290.

Mildred K. Travis, "A Note on 'The Bell Tower': Melville's 'Blackwood Article'," Poe Studies, 6.1 (1973): 28-29.

1974

C.P. Courtney, "A Contributor to Blackwood's Magazine (1829) Identified," Notes and Queries, Sept. 1974: 335.

Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV, "Poe, Blackwood's, and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue," American Notes and Queries, 12 (1974): 109-111.

Clive Marin, ""Blackwood's," The Midwest Quarterly, 15 (1974): 417-428.

John E. Saveson, "Conrad, Blackwood's, and Lombroso," Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad, 6 (1974): 57-62.

1975

David Daniell, "John Buchan and Blackwood's," Blackwood's Magazine, 1918.318 (August 1975): 97-109.

David V. Erdman, "Coleridge and the 'Review Business'," Wordsworth Circle, 6 (1975): 3-50.

John A. Sutherland, "Lytton, John Blackwood and the Serialisation of 'Middlemarch'," Bibliotheck, 7 (1975): 98-104.

1976

Stephen J. Spector, "The Unattributed Blackwood's Review of D.G.Rosetti's Poems, 1870," Notes and Queries, 23 (1976): 398.

1977

Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV, "Poe's 'Tarr and Fether': Hoaxing in the Blackwood Mode," Topic: A Journal of the Liberal Arts, 31 (1977): 29-40.

Ian A. Gordon, "Plastic Surgery on a Ninteenth-century Novel: John Galt, William Blackwood, Dr. D.M. Moir and The Last of the Lairds," The Journal: A quarterly journal of bibliography, 32.3 (Sept. 1977): 246-255.

Stephen Gray, "Douglas Blackburn: Journalist into Novelist," English in Africa, 5.1 (1978): 1-7.

David Roberts, "The Social Conscience of Tory Periodicals," Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, 10.3 (Sept. 1977): 154-169.

John A. Sutherland, "The Fiction Earning Patterns of Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot and Trollope," Browning Institute Studies, 7 (1977): 71-92.

Max Keith Sutton, "Blackmore's Letters to Blackwood: The Record of a Novelist's Indecision," English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 20.2 (1977): 69-76.

1978

Roland F. Anderson, "Negotiating for the Mill on the Floss," Publishing History, 2 (1978): 27-40.

Alan Bell, "Some Recent Acquisitions of Publishing Archives by the National Library of Scotland," Publishing History, 3 (1978): 37-45.

Karsten Engelberg, "Leigh Hunt and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," Review of English Studies, 29 (1978): 185-190.

Stephen Gray, "Douglas Blackburn: Journalist into Novelist," English in Africa, 5:1 (1978): 1-7.

Salim Rashid, "David Robinson and the Tory Macroeconomics of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, History of Political Economy, 10.2 (1978): 259-70.

John Sutherland, Victorian Novelists and Publishers, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

1979

Kathleen Adams, "John Blackwood 1818-1879," The George Eliot Fellowship Review, 10 (1979): 18-21.

D.W. Hopkins, ed., Specimens of the British Critics. A Facsimile Reproduction, Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsims. & Repts., 1979.

Charles A. Knight, "The Created World of the Edinburgh Periodicals," A Review of Studies in Scottish Language and Literature, 6.2 (1979): 20-36.

1980-1989

1980

John Barnes, "Bush voices in Edinburgh: works by Australian writers published by William Blackwood," Blackwood's Magazine, 328 (Dec 1980): 526-31.

Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV, "How to Write a Blackwood Article: Revise, Revise, Revise," Interpretations, 12 (1980): 22-30.

George V. Griffith, "John Galt's Short Fiction Series," Studies in Short Fiction, 17.4 (Fall 1980): 455-462.

Judith Knelman, "Trollope's Experiments with Anonymity," Victorian Periodicals Review, 14.1 (Spring 1981): 21-24.

1981

Ruth Berman, "Critical Reactions to Fantasy in Four Nineteenth-Century Periodicals: Edinburgh Review, Blackwood's, Fraser's, and Cornhill, The Sphinx: a magazine of literature and society, 4.1 (1981): 1-37.

1982

Roland F. Anderson, "'Things Wisely Ordered': John Blackwood, George Eliot, and the Publication of Romola," Publishing History, 11 (1982): 5-39.

R.H. Byrns, "Some Unrepublished Articles of DeQuincey in Blackwood's Magazine," Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 85.3 (1982): 344-351.

Patricia Morris, "A Periodical Paternity Claim: Pringle v. Hogg," English Studies in Africa, 25.1 (1982): 55-58.

Patricia Morris, "Origin of Blackwood's Magazine," Notes and Queries, Aug. 1982: 302.

Michael Munday, "The Novel and its Critics in the Early Nineteenth Century," Studies in Philology, 79.2 (Spring 1982): 205-226.

1983

Charles E. Robinson, "Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Ollier and William Blackwood: The context of early nineteenth-century publishing," in Kelvin Everest, ed., Shelley Revalued: Essays from the Gregynog Conference, Leicester: Leicester U. Press, 1983.

Stephen Tatum, 'A Picture Gallery Unrivalled of its Kind': Blackwood's American Frontier and the Idea of Democracy," The Western Historical Quarterly, Jan.1983: 29-48.

Bruce Ira Weiner, "Poe's Subversion of Verisimilitude," in Dennis W. Eddings, ed., The Naiad Voice: Essays on Poe's Satiric Hoaxing, Port Washington, NY: Associated Faculty, 1983, 112-123.

1984

J.H. Alexander, "Blackwood's: Magazine as Romantic Form," The Wordsworth Circle, 15.2 (Spring 1984): 57-68.

J. Haythornthwaite, "The Wages of Success: 'Miss Marjoribanks', Margaret Oliphant and the House of Blackwood," Publishing History, 15 (1984): 91-107.

Jon Klancher, "Reading the Social Text: Power, Signs, and the Audience in Early Nineteenth-Century Prose," Studies in Romanticism, 23.2 (Summer 1984): 183-204.

Maurice Milne, "The 'Veiled Author' Unveiled: William Blackwood and his Magazine," Publishing History, 16 (1984): 87-103.

Barbara Quinn Schmidt, "Novelists, Publishers, and Fiction in Middle-Class Magazines: 1860-1880," Victorian Periodicals Review, 17 (Winter 1984): 142-152.

1985

Andrew Blake, "The Place of Fiction in Victorian Literary Culture," Literature and History, 2.2 (Autumn 1985): 203-216.

Maurice Milne, "The Management of a Nineteenth-Century Magazine: William Blackwood & Sons, 1827-1847," Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History, 1.3 (Summer 1985): 24-33.

Alethea Hayter, "De Quincey's smashed vision," The Times Literary Supplement, 4297 (Aug. 9 1985): 871-2

1986

J.H. Alexander, "Literary Criticism in the Later 'Noctes Ambrosianae'," Yearbook of English Studies, 16 (1986): 17-31.

I.F. Clarke, "Dorking Revisited," Science-Fiction Studies, 13.38 (March 1986): 84-86.

Elizabeth J. Deis and Lowell T. Frye, "'London or Else the Back-woods': Some British Views of America in the 1830s," South Atlantic Quarterly, 85.4 (Autumn 1986): 374-387.

Peter Denman, "Ferguson and Blackwood's: The Formative Years," Irish University Review, 16.2 (Autumn 1986): 141-158.

N. John Hall, "Seeing Trollope's An Autobiography through the Press: The correspondence of William Blackwood and Henry Merivale Trollope," Princeton University Chronicle, 47.2 (Winter 1986): 189-223.

Susan Levine and Stuart Levine, "'How-To' Satire: Cervantes, Marryat, Poe," Modern Language Studies, 16: 3 (Summer 1986): 15-26.

1987

Alethea Hayter, "La Vision brisee de De Quincey," Po&Sie, 40.1 (1987): 30-39.

Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, "William Blackwood: The Human Face behind the Mask of 'Ebony'," Keats-Shelley Journal, 36 (1987): 158-189.

1988

Peter D. Garside, "Henry Mackenzie, the Scottish Novel, and Blackwood's Magazine," Scottish Literary Journal, 15.1 (May 1988): 25-48.

J. Haythornthwaite, "A Victorian Novelist and her Publisher: Margaret Oliphant and the House of Blackwood," Bibliotheck, 15.2 (1988): 37-50.

1989

Hamish Brown, "The Rannoch Moor: An Account of a Victorian Crossing in Winter, Gleaned from the pages of an old Blackwood's Magazine," Climb and Hill Walker, 28.3 (Mar. 1989): 23.

David Groves, "Thomas de Quincey and a Review of Blackwood's Magazine," The Library: a quarterly journal of bibliography, 11.2 (June 1989): 147-149.

Coleman O. Parson, "The Parodic Background of "The Chaldee Manuscript"," Studies in Scottish Literature," 24 (1989): 221-225.

Eric W. Nye, "Coleridge and the publishers: twelve new manuscripts," Modern Philology, 87 (Aug. 1989): 51-72.

1990-1999

1990

J.H. Alexander, "Learning From Europe: Continental Literature in the Edinburgh Review and Blackwood's Magazine 1802-1825," The Wordsworth Circle, 21.3 (Summer 1990): 118-124.

J. Haythornthwaite, "Friendly Encounters: A Study of the Relationship between the House of Blackwood and Margaret Oliphant in her Role as Literary Critic," Publishing History, 28 (1990): 79-88.

David Groves, "De Quincey, David Robinson, and the Edinburgh Post," Notes and Queries, 37 (Dec. 1990): 420-1.

Bruce I. Weiner, "Poe and the Blackwood's Tale of Sensation," in Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV, ed., Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu, Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990, 45-65.

1991

Lawrence Danson, "Oscar Wilde, W.H., and the Unspoken Name of Love," ELH, 58 (1991): 979-1000.

David Finkelstein, "An Additional Catalogue of the Blackwood Papers," Bibliotheck, 16 (1989 [1991]): 54-56.

1992

J.H. Alexander, ed., The Tavern Sages, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1992.

David Finkelstein, "Thomas de Quincey and Robert Blackwood: An Unpublished Letter," Notes and Queries, 237.2 (June 1992): 176-177.

Robert Morrison, "De Quincey, Champion of Shelley," Keats-Shelley Journal, 41 (1992): 36-41.

Peter Murphy, "Impersonation and Authorship in Romantic Britain," ELH, 59 (1992): 625-649.

Kim Wheatley, "The Blackwood's Attacks on Leigh Hunt," Nineteenth Century Literature, 47.1 (June 1992): 1-31.

John Hardman, "The robber's tower: a true adventure. Reprint from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine December 1828 issue," Southern Humanities Review, 26 (Spring 1992): 113-29.

1993

Kevin Ashby, "The Centre and the Margins in 'The Lifted Veil' and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, 24-25.2 (Sept. 1993): 132-146.

J. Lasley Dameron, Pamela Palmer, Kenneth J. Curry, compilers, An Index to the Critical Vocabulary of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1830-1840, Conn.: Locust Hill, 1993.

David Finkelstein, "Blackwood's Magazine: Three Authorial Identifications Confirmed," Victorian Periodicals Review, (Winter 1993): 191-192.

David Finkelstein, "George Eliot to William Blackwood III: Two Unpublished Letters," The George Eliot Review, 24 (1993): 31-33.

David Finkelstein, "'A Powerful One': Jack London and Blackwood's Magazine," The Bibliotheck, 17 (1990/91 [1993]): 57-62.

David Finkelstein, "Immaturity Considered: George Bernard Shaw and his Dealings with William Blackwood & Sons," Notes and Queries, 40.2 (March 1993): 61-63.

David Finkelstein, "'Unravelling Speke': The Blackwoods and the Construction of John Hanning Speke as Author in his Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile," The Bibliotheck, 18 (1992-93): 40-57.

David Groves, "'Confessions of an English Glutton': A (Probable) Source for James Hogg's Confessions," Notes and Queries, 40.2 (March 1993): 46-47.

David Groves, "Hogg's Confessions and Dante's Divine Comedy," The Bibliotheck, 18 (1992-93): 1-4.

David Groves, "John Galt's Review of Howison's 'Canada' in Blackwood's Magazine," Notes and Queries, 40.4 (1993): 471-472.

David Groves, "Robert Gillies and 'A Winter Night's Dream'," Notes and Queries, 40.4 (December 1993): 473-474.

1994

Christine Alexander, "Readers and Writers: Blackwood's and the Brontes," Gaskell Society Journal, 8 (1994): 54-69.

Carol A Martin, George Eliot's Serial Fiction, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1994.

1995

Christine Alexander, ed., Branwell's Blackwood Magazine: The Glass Town Magazine written by Branwell Bronte with Contributions from his Sister Charlotte Bronte, Edmonton, AB: Juvenilia, 1995.

David Finkelstein, An Index to Blackwood's Magazine 1901-1980, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995.

David Finkelstein, "A Woman Hater and Women Healers: John Blackwood, Charles Reade and the Victorian Women's Medical Movement," Victorian Periodicals Review, 28.4 (Winter 1995): 330-352.

Elisabeth Jay, Mrs. Oliphant: 'A Fiction to Herself', A Literary Life, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Dale Kramer, "Review of Tragedies in the Nineteenth-Century Blackwood's," Victorian Periodicals Review, 28.2 (Summer 1995): 95-109.

Grevel Lindop, "English Reviewers and Scotch Professors: De Quincey's debts to Edinburgh life and letters," Times Literary Supplement, 4839 (29 December 1995): 9-10.

Carol Martin, "Two Unpublished Letters from John Blackwood on the Serialization of 'Scenes of Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede'," Publishing History, 37 (1995): 51-59.

Maurice Milne, "A Neglected Paternalist: William Johnston of Blackwood's Magazine," Victorian Periodicals Review, 28.1 (Spring 1995): 11-26.

Robert Morrison, "Blackwood's Under William Blackwood," Scottish Literary Journal, 22.1 (May 1995): 61-65.

Robert Morrison, "John Howison of Blackwood's Magazine," Notes and Queries, 42.2 (1995): 191-193.

Robert Morrison and Chris Baldick, eds., Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine, Oxford: World's Classics, 1995.

D. J. Trela, ed., Margaret Oliphant: Critical Essays on a Gentle Subversive, PA: Susquehanna U.P, 1995.

Elizabeth Winston, "Revising Miss Marjoribanks," Nineteenth-Century Studies, 9 (1995): 85-97.

1996

David Finkelstein, "Reassessing Margaret Oliphant," Scottish Literary Journal, Winter 1996: 1-5.

Kathleen McCormack, "George Eliot's First Fiction: Targetting Blackwood's," The Bibliotheck, 21 (1996): 69-80.

Michael Michie, "Mr. Wordy and the Blackwoods: Author and Publisher in Victorian Scotland," The Bibliotheck, 21 (1996): 39-54.

L.E. Roman, "De Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis: the reason for incompletion." Notes and Queries, 43.1 (March 1996): 43-44.

Krystyna Tomaszewska-Carter, "Krystyn Lach-Szyrma (1791-1866) as a Contributor to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," in Rosemary Hunt and Ursula Phillips, eds., Muza Donowa: A Celebration of Donald Pirie's Contribution to Polish Studies, Astra Press, 1996.

1997

John F. Allan, "Blackwood's Magazine," The Mariner's Mirror, 83.3 (1997): 346.

William Baker, "Fifteen Unpublished Letters from John Blackwood and Joseph Munt Langford to George Henry Lewes and George Eliot," VIJ: Victorian Institute Journal, 25 (1997): 203-229.

David Finkelstein, "Breaking the Thread: The Authorial Reinvention of John Hanning Speke in His Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile," Text, 9: 1997, 280-296.

Ralph Jessop, "Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon-Cumming, Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnstone," in Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, eds., A History of Scottish Women's Writing, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997, 216-231.

Kathleen McCormack, "George Eliot and John Blackwood," Antiquarian Book Monthly, 24.7 (1997): 28-35.

Robert Morrison, "Opium-Eaters and Magazine Wars: De Quincey and Coleridge in 1821," Victorian Periodicals Review, 30.1 (Spring 1997): 27-40.

Eric Carl Link, "Frank Norris's Blackwood Tale," Frank Norris Studies, 23 (Spring1997): 4-6.

Leah Price, "George Eliot and the production of consumers," Novel, 30 (Winter 1997): 145-69.

Clare A. Simmons, "Periodical Intrusions in Galt's The Last of the Lairds," Scottish Literary Journal, 24.1 (May 1997): 54-59.

1998

Virginia Blain, "Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey negotiates Blackwood's 1820-1847," in Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, eds., Victorian Journalism: Exotic and Domestic, Essays in Honour of P.D. Edwards, St. Lucia: Queensland University Press, 1998, 1-18.

M. Bull, "Mastery and Slavery of Choice against Hunt, Hazlitt, and Keats," Keats-Shelley Journal, 47 (1998): 87-107.

David Finkelstein, "Literature, Propaganda and the First World War: The Case of Blackwood's Magazine," in Jeremy Treglown & Bridget Bennet (eds.), Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Essays on the relations between literary journalism and literary scholarship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 91-111.

Grevel Lindop, "De Quincey and the Edinburgh and Glasgow University Circles," in Jeremy Treglown & Bridget Bennet (eds.), Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Essays on the relations between literary journalism and literary scholarship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 41-57.

Robert Morrison, "Richard Woodhouse's 'Cause Book:' The Opium Eater, the Magazine Wars, and the London literary scene in 1821," Harvard Library Bulletin, 9.3 (Fall 1998): vii-xxiv, 1-43.

Joanne Shattock, "Margaret Oliphant: Journalist," in Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, eds., Victorian Journalism: Exotic and Domestic, Essays in Honour of P.D. Edwards, St. Lucia: Queensland University Press, 1998, 95-107.

1999

Gilbert Bonifas, "Le Fleau Yankee: Les Enjeux de la guerre de Secession dan deux revues conservatrices britanniques, The Quarterly Review et Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," Cycnos, 16.1 (1999): 35-81.

Jeffrey N. Cox, "Leigh Hunt's Cockney School: The Lakers' 'Other'," Romanticism On the Net 14 (May 1999): http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1999/v/n14/005859ar.html

David Groves, "De Quincey and the early issues of Blackwood's Magazine, Notes and Queries, 46.4 (December 1999): 473-474.

David Groves, "James Hogg and the 'New Christmas Carol': A Misattribution," Notes and Queries, 46.4 (December 1999): 474.

Greg Kucich, "'The Wit in the Dungeon': Leigh Hunt and the Insolent Politics of Cockney Coteries," Romanticism On the Net 14 (May 1999): http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1999/v/n14/005850ar.html

Ayumi Mizukoshi, "The Cockney Politics of Gender-the Cases of Hunt and Keats," Romanticism On the Net 14 (May 1999): http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1999/v/n14/005851ar.html

Robert Morrison, "John Wilson and the Editorship of Blackwood's Magazine, Notes and Queries, 46.1 (March 1999): 48-50.

Charles Snodgrass, "Advancing a Jacobite Patina: Hogg's Relics in Blackwood's House," Studies in Hogg and his World, 10 (1999): 27-39.

S. Spencer, "Words, terms, and other 'unchancy' things: rhetorical strategies and self-definition in 'The Laws Concerning Women'," Women's Writing, 6.2 (1999): 251-259.

John Strachan, "'The Praise of Blacking': William Frederick Deacon's Warreniana and Early Nineteenth-century Advertising-related Parody," Romanticism On the Net 15 (August 1999): http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1999/v/n15/005874ar.html

Kazuhisa Takahashi, "'Etorikku no hitsujikai': Arui wa, hitsujikai no retorriku," Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation, 144: 11 (Feb. 1999): 640-42.

2000-Present

2000

David Groves, "'With regard to the Justified Sinner': Hogg's payment for his greatest novel," Notes and Queries, 47.3 (Sep 2000): 325-6.

David Groves, "'Disgusted with all the Cockneys': De Quincey, the London Magazine and Blackwood's Magazine, Notes and Queries, 47.3 (September 2000): 326-327.

David Finkelstein, "'Long and Intimate Connections': Constructing a Scottish Identity for Blackwood's Magazine," in Laurel Brake, Bill Bell and David Finkelstein (eds.). Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000, 326-338.

Will Kaufman, "'Our Rancorous Cousins': British Literary Journals on the Approach of the Civil War," Symbiosis 4.1 (April 2000): 35-50.

Douglas S. Mack, "James Hogg in 2000 and Beyond," Romanticism On the Net 19 (August 2000): http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n19/005934ar.html

Caroline McCracken-Flesher, "The Fourth Peril of James Hogg: Walter Scott and the Demonology of Minstrelsy," Studies in Hogg and his World, 11 (2000): 39-55.

Robert Morrison, "Blackwood's Berserker: John Wilson and the Language of Extremity," Romanticism On the Net 20 (November 2000): http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n20/005951ar.html

Mark Parker, Literary Magazines and British Romanticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

M. Schaub, "Queen of the air of constitutional monarch?: Idealism, irony, and narrative power in 'Miss Marjoribanks'," Nineteenth-Century Literature, 55.2 (2000): 195-225.

Joanne Shattock, "Work for Women: Margaret Oliphant's Journalism," in Laurel Brake, Bill Bell and David Finkelstein (eds.). Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000, 165-177.

Nicola Z. Trott, "North of the Border: Cultural Crossing in the Noctes Ambrosiane," Romanticism On the Net 20 (November 2000): http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n20/005956ar.html

2001

Paul Auchterlonie, "From the Eastern Question to the Death of General Gordon: Representations of the Middle East in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1876-1885," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 28.1 (May 2002): 5-24.

Nancy Moore Goslee, "Contesting Liberty: The Figure of William Wallace in Poems by Hemans, Hogg, and Baillie," Keats-Shelley Journal: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and Their Circles: 50 (2001): 35-63.

Donald Gray, "George Eliot and Her Publishers," in George Levine, ed., The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 181-201.

David E. Latane, "The Two Dr. Maginns," Notes and Queries, 48.2 (June 2001): 137-137.

Robert Morrison, "'Abuse Wickedness, but Acknowledge Wit': Blackwood's and the Shelley Circle," Victorian Periodicals Review 34.2 (Summer 2001): 147-164.

Simon C. Smith, "Piloting Princes: Hugh Clifford and the Malay Rulers," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 11: 3 (2001): 363-375.

2002

David Finkelstein, "From Textuality to Orality: The Reception of The Battle of Dorking," in John Thomson (ed.), Books and Bibliographies: Essays in Commemoration of Don McKenzie. Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press, 2002, 79-94.

David Finkelstein, The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2002.

David Finkelstein, "The Maga Mohawks," Scottish Book Collector, 7.5 (Autumn 2002): 19-22.

David Higgins, "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Construction of Wordsworth's Genius," Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 25: 1 (Apr. 2002): 122-36.

Richard d. Jackson, "James Hogg and the Unfathomable Hell," Romanticism On the Net, 28 (Nov. 2002):
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2002/v/n28/007206ar.html

A. Leng, "Letters to workmen? Fors Clavigera, Whistler vs. Ruskin and sage criticism in crisis," Prose Studies, 24.1 (April 2002): 63-92.

Lisa Niles, "'May the Married be Single, and the Single Happy': Blackwood's, the Maga for the Single Man," Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 25:1 (April 2002): 102-21.

2003

Paul Bentley, "Caviare from the Count: Blackwood's and John Keats's La Belle Dame Sans Merci," Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism, 9:1 (2003): 55-67.

G. Dart, "The Cockney moment (The character of the Cockney in Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers' and 'Sketches by Boz')," Cambridge Quarterly, 32.3 (2003): 203-223.

David Finkelstein, "Imperial Self-Representation: Constructions of Empire in Blackwood's Magazine 1880-1900," in Julie Codell (ed.) Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003: 95-108.

David Finkelstein, "Unraveling Speke: The Unknown Revision of an African Exploration Classic," History in Africa 30 (2003): 117-132.

Chester W. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905, VII: F. V. White & Co., Cassell & Co., William Blackwood & Sons, Vizetelly & Co., Denver, Co: Hermitage Bookshop, 2003.

Kim Wheatley, ed., Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture, London and Portland, Ore: Frank Cass, 2003.

2004

Karen Fang, "A Printing Devil, a Scottish Mummy, and an Edinburgh Book of the Dead: James Hogg's Napoleonic Complex," Studies in Romanticism, 43:2 (Summer 2004): 161-85.

Katherine Stewart, "A priceless legacy," Scots Magazine, 160.1 (Jan 2004): 49-53.

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