ABSTRACT
Most studies on the printed travelogue investigate books. In the nineteenth century, however, travel writing was also a staple of the flourishing periodicals market. This chapter considers the conjunction of travel, travel writing and the medium of the periodical with a focus on three mid-Victorian illustrated magazines: Leisure Hour, Good Words and The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine. The chapter explores the special affordances of periodical publication for travel writing and reading, with special attention to the magazines’ profiles and modes of address, temporalities (presentness, seriality and periodicity), the co-presence of travel writing and articles on other topics, and the interplay of letterpress and images on the page of the illustrated magazine.
