The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co

Ward Lock & Co

Ward Lock & Co was a publishing house in the United Kingdom that started as a partnership and developed until it was eventually absorbed into the publishing combine of Orion Publishing Group.-History:...

 from January 1895 to September 1939 (537 issues).

The title page described it as "An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women".

It was bound as six-monthly volumes, with the exception of Volume IV and Volume LXXXX (XC).

Contributors

Writers who wrote for the magazine included -

• Arnold Bennett
  Arnold Bennett
  - Early life :Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the beginning of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the...
  
  ;
• Leslie Charteris
  Leslie Charteris
  Leslie Charteris , born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half-Chinese, half English author of primarily mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint."-Early life:Charteris was born to a Chinese father...
  
  
• Rider Haggard whose "Ayesha
  Ayesha (novel)
  Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic novel by the popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She...
  
  " was serialised in 1904-5;
• Anthony Hope
  Anthony Hope
  Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau...
  
   whose "Sophy of Kravonia" was serialised in 1905-6;
• Jerome K. Jerome
  Jerome K. Jerome
  Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was brought up in poverty in London...
  
  ;
• Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
  
   whose "Stalky & Co.
  Stalky & Co.
  Stalky & Co. is a book published in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly...
  
  " was serialised in 1898-9;
• Jack London
  Jack London
  John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
  
  ;
• Archibald Marshall
  Archibald Marshall
  Arthur Hammond Marshall , better known by his pen name Archibald Marshall, was an English author, publisher and journalist whose novels were particularly popular in the United States. He published over 50 books and was recognized as a realist in his writing style, and was considered by some as a...
  
  ;
• E. Nesbit
  E. Nesbit
  Edith Nesbit was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television...
  
  ;
• 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....
  
  ;
• Dornford Yates
  Dornford Yates
  Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer , whose novels and short stories, some humorous , some thrillers , were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.The pen name, Dornford Yates, first in print in 1910, resulted...
  
   who first appeared in issue 201 (September 1911) with the story, "The Busy Bees" and subsequently became a regular contributor to the magazine, providing 123 stories including "His Brother's Wife" which appeared in the final issue, 537, in September 1939.

The Windsor Magazine
Volume #		From	To	Issues From	To
1	I	January 1895	June 1895	1	6
2	II	July 1895	December 1895	7	12
3	III	January 1896	June 1896	13	18
4	IV	July 1896	November 1896	19	23
5	V	December 1896	May 1897	24	29
6	VI	June 1897	November 1897	30	35
7	VII	December 1897	May 1898	36	41
8	VIII	June 1898	November 1898	42	47
9	IX	December 1898	May 1899	48	53
10	X	June 1899	November 1899	54	59
11	XI	December 1899	May 1900	60	65
12	XII	June 1900	November 1900	66	71

Volumes continued to run from December to May and June to November thereafter, except for the final volume, 90 (LXXXX or XC) which covered the last four issues, from June to September 1939.

On 13th September 1939 (12 days after the outbreak of the Second World War) The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

carried a news article stating "The proprietors and publishers of the Windsor Magazine announce that in the present difficult circumstances it has been decided to suspend publication as from the September number, just issued." Publication was never resumed.