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.
[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)