Borderland was a magazine founded and edited by William Thomas Stead from 1893 to 1897. The focus of the publication was on spiritualism and psychical research, mainly from a supportive point of view.

In the 1890s, Stead became increasingly interested in spiritualism.[1] In 1893 he founded Borderland as a popular spiritualist magazine giving full play to his interest in psychical research.[1] The magazine appeared quarterly, priced 1/6.[2] Stead declared that the new magazine would be for the general public, in distinction to the "select few" of the Society for Psychical Research[3] As with the Review of Reviews, Stead was both proprietor and editor.[2] He employed Ada Goodrich Freer as assistant editor: she was also a substantial contributor under the pseudonym "Miss X".[4][5] Stead claimed that he was in the habit of communicating with Freer by telepathy and automatic writing.[2][6] The magazine ceased publication in October 1897.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Janet Oppenheim (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 34. ISBN 0-521-34767-X.
  2. ^ a b c d Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009). Dictionary of nineteenth-century journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. p. 65. ISBN 90-382-1340-9.
  3. ^ Joseph O. Baylen (1969). "W. T. Stead's "Borderland: A Quarterly Review and Index of Psychic Phenomena", 1893-97". Victorian Periodicals Newsletter. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. 2 (4): 30–35. JSTOR 20084797.
  4. ^ Hall (1980) pp.45-52
  5. ^ Campbell, J. L. (2004). "Freer, Ada Goodrich (1857–1931)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/46548. Retrieved 2012-04-10. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ María del Pilar Blanco; Esther Peeren (2010). Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 58. ISBN 1-4411-6401-4.
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