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The English Illustrated Magazine

Total Issues: 359

Contained many articles on travel and topography, but also copious fiction; in some ways, this was the British publication which pointed the way towards the later Strand Magazine. Authors include Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Stanley J. Weyman, Max Pemberton, etc.

The simultaneous American edition was retitled New Illustrated Magazine from Feb-1897 - Sep-1901.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1883 – Aug-1913:	FictionMags Index	(FicMags sample issues only; Poole to 1899 only)
	Index to Periodical Literature	(FicMags sample issues only; Poole to 1899 only)

Publishers

  Oct-1883 – Sep-1892: Macmillan
  Oct-1892 – Sep-1893: Edward Arnold
  Oct-1893 – Sep-1898: Illustrated London News
  Oct-1898 – Sep-1901: William Ingram
  Oct-1901 – Mar-1903: T. Fisher Unwin
  Apr-1903 – Feb-1905: Hutchinson's
  Mar-1905 – Aug-1913: Central Publishing

Editors

  Oct-1883 – Sep-1889: J.W. Comyns Carr
  Oct-1889 – Sep-1893: Clement Kinloch-Cooke
  Oct-1893 – Aug-1899: Clement King Shorter
  Sep-1899 – Sep-1901: Bruce Ingram
  Oct-1901 – Mar-1903: Hannaford Bennett
  Mar-1905 – Aug-1913: Oscar Parker

Formats

standard with profuse woodcut illustrations

Prices

Oct-1883 – Sep-1893: 1/-
Oct-1893 – Aug-1913: 6d

Pagecounts

  Oct-1883 – Sep-1888: 64pp
  Oct-1888 – Mar-1893: 70pp
  Apr-1893 – Sep-1894: 88pp
  Oct-1894 – Sep-1896: 94pp
  Oct-1896 – Aug-1913: 96pp - 112pp

Frequency

monthly

Sources: The Age of the Storytellers


Issue Checklist

The English Ladies Novelette

A single, anonymous, novelette in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1891 – Aug-1892?:

FictionMags Index

(volume 1 only)

Publishers:   E.J. Brett
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   weekly

English Life

Published "The Mahatma's Story" by May Sinclair (Oct. 1924), "The White Pillars Murder" by G.K. Chesterton (Jan. 1925). Not to be confused with English Life and Language (Jan-1946 - Dec-1947, 24 issues)

Issues & Index Sources: 192? – ?

Frequency: monthly?

The English Magazine

Total Issues: 25

Issues & Index Sources: May-1929 – Jan-1932

Frequency: monthly?

The English Review

Total Issues: 344

A literary review with the emphasis on criticism and analysis, it nevertheless published plenty of fiction, including serials and poetry. The first issue included "The Jolly Corner" Henry James, "A Fisher of Men" John Galsworthy and the start of two serials, "The Raid" Leo Tolstoi and "Tono-Bungay," H.G. Wells. Also published Wells's "The New Machiavelli" (May-1910 - Nov-1910). Other authors include Vernon Lee, Violet Hunt, May Sinclair, Lord Dunsany, Richard Middleton, William Beckford (Episodes of Vathek, 1910), L.A.G. Strong, John Collier, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Algernon Blackwood. Published first work by D.H. Lawrence.