Typical examples such as Sunday at Home, The Quiver, and Leisure Hour featured a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, and verse, all dealing in some way with Christian themes.
Sunday reading magazines contained a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, and verse, though contributions generally all featured an overtly Christian perspective.
[1] Fiction, which included short stories and serialized novels such as Jessica's First Prayer (serialised in 1866 in Sunday at Home), typically carried clear moral lessons.
[5] The market for Sunday periodicals declined around the beginning of the 20th century as it became more socially acceptable to partake in secular entertainment on the Sabbath.
[2] In 1899, the annual report of the Religious Tract Society, which published multiple Sunday periodicals, stated that their publications "have to fight more or less for very life", and that "every year makes their way more difficult".