The Grand Magazine was the first British

United Kingdom

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 pulp magazine

Pulp magazine

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. It was published monthly between February 1905 and April 1940. Published by George Newnes

George Newnes

Sir George Newnes, 1st Baronet was a publisher and editor in England.-Background and education:...

, it initially emulated Newnes's highly successful Strand Magazine

Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine composed of fictional stories and factual articles founded by George Newnes. It was first published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950 running to 711 issues, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890.Its immediate...

, featuring a mix of fiction and non-fiction. In 1908, it was renamed The Grand Magazine of Fiction.

The New York Times

The New York Times

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greeted the appearance of the new magazine with the comment that "this is a promising periodical, containing much that will commend itself to the decent popular taste", and added that "Mr Herbert Greenhough Smith, who has been the editor of The Strand Magazine, occupies the same post on the new periodical".

Although Herbert Greenhough Smith

Herbert Greenhough Smith

Herbert Greenhough Smith was the first editor of The Strand Magazine which published many of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories...

 was associated with the launch of the magazine, the first editor, until 1910, was Alderson Anderson.

The many authors whose work appeared in The Grand included Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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, E. Phillips Oppenheim

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Edward Phillips Oppenheim , was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.-Life:...

, Baroness Orczy

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel...

, Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.-Life:Rafael Sabatini was born in Iesi, Italy, to an English mother and Italian father...

, Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....

 and P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

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