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Leisure Hour

The Leisure Hour was a British general-interest periodical of the Victorian era which ran weekly from 1852 to 1905. It was the most successful of several popular magazines published by the Religious Tract Society, which produced Christian literature for a wide audience. Each issue mixed multiple genres of fiction and factual stories, historical and topical.The magazine's title referred to campaigns that had decreased work hours, giving workers extra leisure time. Until 1876, it carried the subtitle "A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation"; after that, the subtitle changed to "An illustrated magazine for home reading".Each issue cost one penny and contained 16 pages. The layout typically included approximately six long articles, formatted in two column… more »