Glasgow Weekly Mail
Several of George MacDonald's novels were first serialized here, and the newspaper had a circulation of over 200,000.
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Sharin Schroeder commented
I love that you are beginning to add this paper to the archive. The available scans have already been extremely helpful. However, I would also love it if you could continue the scanning past 1892 (after you finish the current bits). The newspaper itself repeatedly claims to have the largest circulation in Scotland. In 1885, they claimed their cirulation was over 230,000 a week: "This is larger than the combined circulation of all the daily papers in Scotland," and by the end of May, they claimed they had a circulation of "Over a Quarter of a Million.This represents more than a million readers each week." Moreover, as noted by William Donaldson, there is much of interest in the vernacular novel serializations in this paper. I would love to see the time period of digitization extended because I imagine this paper could be key to rethinking our understanding of Scottish novels in the late nineteenth century. Kailyard literature is becoming very much discussed in Scottish papers in the 1890s just after the coverage is scheduled to end. The Glasgow Herald, the Glasgow Weekly Mail's rival, is frequently quoted on the subject, but the more liberal paper's views are unexplored. It would be great if this paper could be digitized until May 1915, when the title changes, but if that is not possible, it would be great to go at least until the end of the century. Thanks a lot for considering extending the coverage.
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Sharin Schroeder commented
William Donaldson's Popular Culture in Victorian Scotland especially pointed to this newspaper as being a window into nineteenth-century popular culture. I really hope the weekly versions of the Glasgow Weekly Mail and the Glasgow Weekly Herald can be added as soon as possible. I think they're key to understanding much about nineteenth-century Scottish culture and popular fiction.