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The Grand Magazine was Britain's first mass-circulation cheap monthly magazine; it was launched by George Newnes in February 1905 for the large readership of weekly novelettes and story papers. Published in London, its early issues contained mostly feature articles of the kind that had filled out Newnes's Strand Magazine. Despite retitling itself The Grand Magazine of Fiction in April 1908, publishing many more stories, and (later) including illustrations, it was unable to catch up with rivals The Novel and The Story-Teller. Contributors included William Hope Hodgson, Arnold Bennett, George Bernard Shaw, C. N. & A. M. Williamson, Ernest Bramah, Baroness Orczy, Edgar Wallace, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Rafael Sabatini, P.G. Wodehouse, A.E.W. Mason, and Agatha Christie. Editors were Alderson Anderson (1905-10); C.W. Wingham (1911-20); Reeves Shaw (1920-31); and H.W. Leggett (1932-40). The last issue was published in April 1940.

• Ashley, Mike. The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880-1950. London: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2006. 81-6.
• Bear Alley. The Grand Magazine. Blog post, 14 April 2008. http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2008/04/grand-magazine.html
• The Grand Magazine. The Fiction Mags Index. http://www.philsp.com/data/data149.html#GRANDMAGAZINE