Alexander Strahan (1833–1918) was a 19th-century publisher. His company, Alexander Strahan & Co., based at Ludgate Hill in London, published what was arguably [1] one of the dominant periodicals in the 1860s, a monthly magazine called Good Words.
Born in Edinburgh, he was a Scottish Presbyterian. [2] He started his publishing business in Edinburgh in 1858. [3] He moved to London in 1862 and "widened his interest to include what his modern day biographer Patricia Sebrebrnik identifies as the literature of Christian social reform." [2] One of his financial backers was Sir Henry Seymour King, through whom Strahan made a lucrative deal with the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. [2] [4]
He married Lisbeth Gooch Séguin, a prolific travel writer, children's author, and contributor to periodicals. [5]
Srebrnik, Patricia Thomas (1986) - Alexander Strahan, Victorian Publisher (University of Michigan Press)