Britain's first pulp monthly, The Grand Magazine was launched by George Newnes in February 1905 with its target market being the large readership of cheap weekly novelettes and story papers. Its early issues contained mostly feature articles of the kind that had filled out Newnes's Strand Magazine. Although briefly renamed The Grand Magazine of Fiction in 1908, at which time the number of stories in each issue increased (it later also featured illustrations), the magazine failed to equal the success of rivals such as The Novel and The Story-Teller. By 1927 the magazine was known simply as The Grand.
Contributors included: William Hope Hodgson, Arnold Bennett, George Bernard Shaw, C. N. & A. M. Williamson, Ernest Bramah, Baroness Orczy, Edgar Wallace, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Rafael Sabatini, P.G. Wodehouse, A.E.W. Mason, Agatha Christie and James Francis Dwyer.
The Grand Magazine's editors were: Alderson Anderson (1905-10); C.W. Wingham (1911-20); Reeves Shaw (1920-31); and H.W. Leggett (1932-40).
