The Idler (1892–1911)
The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the author Robert Barr, who brought in the humorist Jerome K. Jerome as co-editor, and its contributors included many of the leading writers and illustrators of the time.
Content
The Idler, generally catered to the popular taste, printing light pieces and sensational fiction. The magazine published short stories, serialised novels, humour pieces, poetry, memoirs, travel writing, book and theatre reviews and interviews. It also included a monthly feature called 'The Idlers' Club,' in which a number of writers would offer their views on a particular topic.
Most of The Idler's contributors were popular and prolific writers of the time. Some of them, such as Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain, are still read today.
Editors
- February 1892 - July 1895: Jerome Klapka Jerome and Robert Barr
- August 1895 - November 1897: Jerome Klapka Jerome
- 1898 - 1901: Arthur Lawrence and Sidney Sime
- 1902 - 1911: Robert Barr[1]
Contributors
Writers
- William Livingston Alden
- Robert Barr[2]
- Arthur William Beckett
- Max Beerbohm
- Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes as M. A. Belloc
- Aimée Daniell Beringer as Mrs. Oscar Beringer
- Raymond Blathwayt
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Addison Bright
- G. B. Burgin
- Thomas Burke
- Hall Caine[2]
- William Canton
- Albert Chevalier[2]
- Roy Compton
- May Crommelin
- Aleister Crowley
- Guy de Maupassant[2]
- Arthur Conan Doyle[2]
- Archibald Forbes
- Kirby Hare
- H. Rider Haggard
- William Hope Hodgson
- Jerome K. Jerome[2]
- Rudyard Kipling[2]
- Arthur H. Lawrence
- Eliza Lynn Linton
- Katherine Mansfield
- Richard Marsh
- Frank Mathew
- J. F. Nisbet
- Barry Pain[2]
- Joseph Parker
- W. Pett Ridge
- Eden Phillpotts[2]
- Arthur Quiller-Couch
- Lilian Quiller-Couch
- Jean Richepin
- Morley Roberts
- William Clark Russell
- Francis Saltus Saltus
- Evelyn Sharp
- Robert H. Sherard
- George Robert Sims
- Lincoln Springfield
- Mark Twain[2]
- Allen Upward[2]
- Mary Augusta Ward as Mrs Humphry
- H. G. Wells
- Gleeson White
- John Strange Winter
- Israel Zangwill[2]
Artists
- Sydney Adamson
- Frank Barnard
- Lewis Baumer
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Ada Bowley
- Frank Brangwyn
- Dion Clayton Calthrop
- Max Cowper
- Cynicus (Martin Anderson)
- Archibald Stevenson Forrest (1869 - 1963)
- Florence Fuller
- James Grieg
- John Gulich
- Hal Hurst
- George Wylie Hutchinson
- Ronald Ian
- Richard Jack
- Ernest Jessop
- J. Kerr Lawson
- H. R. Millar
- John Bernard Partridge
- Charles Pears
- Frederick Pegram
- Melton Prior
- Andrew Scott Rankin
- Robert Sauber
- Sidney Sime
- Penryn Stanley
- Frederic Villiers
- Rob Wagner
- Louis Wain
- John L. Wimbush
References
- "The Idler (1892-1911) - Indexes to Fiction". Victorian Fiction Research Guides. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
- "The Idler" Vol.2 Aug. 1892 - Jan. 1893
External links
- Full text online from Project Gutenberg: Vol. 13, February-July 1893.
- Interview with Louis Wain by Roy Compton, originally published in The Idler in January 1896 (Vol VIII No. XLVIII.) .
- The Idler (1892-1911) - Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guide)
- Ockerbloom, John Mark. "Serial archive listings for The Idler". The Online Books Page. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 16 August 2016.