The Captain (magazine)

The Captain was a magazine for boys, published monthly in the United Kingdom from 1899 to 1924. The magazine was headquartered in London.[1] It is perhaps best known for printing many of P. G. Wodehouse's early school stories.

The magazine was established in April 1899 by George Newnes, with R. S. Warren Bell as its first editor. Authors who contributed to The Captain include P. G. Wodehouse, F. C. Selous, Bertram Mitford, C. B. Fry (the Athletic Editor), Edward Step, Dr Gordon Stables,[2] Harold Avery, E. H. D. Sewell, and Charles Gilson.[3] Artists who provided illustrations for the magazine include Tom Browne, Paul Hardy, Alfred Pearse, and John Hassall.[2]

Some of the school stories by Wodehouse published in the magazine were featured in the collection Tales of St. Austin's (1903). The magazine also serialised several early novels by Wodehouse, including Jackson Junior and The Lost Lambs, which were later combined to form the book Mike (1909), and introduced to the world Wodehouse's enduringly popular character, Psmith.

References
  1. "The Captain a Magazine for Boys and Old Boys". ABE Books. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  2. Jackson, Kate (2016) [2001]. "Respectable Anxieties, Role-Models and Readers: The Captain (1899)". George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880–1910: Culture and Profit (Reprinted ed.). Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7546-0317-7 – via Google Books.
  3. Maunder, Andrew; Smith, Angela K.; Potter, Jane; Tate, Trudi (September 29, 2017). British Literature of World War I. Routledge. ISBN 9781351222280 – via Google Books.
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