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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum was a London-based journal of literature, science, and the arts published in the 19th and early 20th century. (There is a Wikipedia article about this serial.)

Publication History

The Athenaeum began in 1828. Some early issues are titled Athenaeum and London Literary Chronicle. It ran until 1921, when it merged with The Nation to form The Nation and the Athenaeum.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1828-1921: HathiTrust has most issues freely readable online. Access to issues published after 1898 may be restricted outside the United States. Some more widely readable and downloadable copies of such issues are listed below.
• 1892: The Internet Archive has numbers 3349-3374, published January through June 1892.
• 1895: The Internet Archive has numbers 3532-3557, published July through December 1895.
• 1896: The Internet Archive has numbers 3558-3583, published January through June 1896.
• 1896: The Internet Archive has numbers 3584-3609, published July through December 1896.
• 1897: The Internet Archive has numbers 3610-3635, published January through June 1897.
• 1897: The Internet Archive has numbers 3636-3661, published July through December 1897.
• 1898: The Internet Archive has numbers 3688-3714, published July through December 1898.
• 1899: The Internet Archive has numbers 3715-3739, published January through June 1899.
• 1899: The Internet Archive has numbers 3740-3766, published July through December 1899.
• 1901: The Internet Archive has numbers 3819-3844, published January through June 1901.
• 1901: The Internet Archive has numbers 3845-3870, published July through December 1901.
• 1902: The Internet Archive has numbers 3871-3896, published January through June 1902.
• 1902: The Internet Archive has numbers 3897-3922, published July through December 1902.
• 1903: The Internet Archive has numbers 3949-3974, published July through December 1903.
• 1904: The Internet Archive has numbers 3975-4000, published January through June 1904.
• 1904: The Internet Archive has numbers 4001-4027, published July through December 1904.
• 1905: The Internet Archive has numbers 4028-4052, published January through June 1905.
• 1906: The Internet Archive has numbers 4080-4105, published January through June 1906.
• 1906: The Internet Archive has numbers 4106-4131, published July through December 1906.
• 1908: The Internet Archive has numbers 4184-4209, published January through June 1908.
• 1909: The Internet Archive has numbers 4236-4261, published January through June 1909.
• 1911: The Internet Archive has numbers 4341-4365, published January through June 1911.
• 1912: The Internet Archive has numbers 4393-4418, published January through June 1912.
• 1913: The Internet Archive has numbers 4445-4470, published January through June 1913.
• 1914: The Internet Archive has numbers 4497-4522, published January through June 1914.
• 1914: The Internet Archive has numbers 4523-4548, published July through December 1914.
• 1920: The Internet Archive has numbers 4679-4704, published January through June 1920.

Related Resources

• We also list some issues of The Nation and the Athenaeum, the successor of this periodical.
• We also list some issues of The Nation, the periodical that merged with this one to form The Nation and the Athenaeum.
• We also list The Literary Chronicle, which this periodical absorbed in 1828.

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