The Little Pilgrim

The Little Pilgrim (1853–1869) was a monthly children’s magazine, published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Leander K. Lippincott, and edited by his wife, Sara Jane Lippincott, working under the pseudonym Grace Greenwood.

The magazine’s name references John Bunyan’s 1678 Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, a book that many children of the mid-1800s would have been familiar with.

The Little Pilgrim had a peak subscription rate of 50,000, and published such well-known authors as John Greenleaf Whittier, James T. Fields, Lucy Larcom, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens and Louisa May Alcott.

In 1869 the magazine merged with The Little Corporal magazine.