Windsor Magazine

*Windsor Magazine*
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	January 1895
Final issue — Number	September 1939 537
Company	Ward Lock & Co
Country	UK
Language	English

The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co 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
Leslie Charteris
Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
Rider Haggard whose Ayesha was serialised in 1904-5
Anthony Hope whose Sophy of Kravonia was serialised in 1905-6
Jerome K. Jerome
Rudyard Kipling whose Stalky & Co. was serialised in 1898-9
Jack London
Archibald Marshall
E. Nesbit
Edgar Wallace
Dornford Yates 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 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.