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, interviews and cartoons. 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, Mark Twain, and Ernest Bramah 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[]
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Writers[]
- William Livingston Alden
- Robert Barr[2]
- Max Beerbohm
- Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes as M. A. Belloc
- Aimée Daniell Beringer as Mrs. Oscar Beringer
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Thomas Burke
- Hall Caine[2]
- William Canton
- Albert Chevalier[2]
- May Crommelin
- Aleister Crowley
- Guy de Maupassant[2]
- Arthur Conan Doyle[2]
- Archibald Forbes
- H. Rider Haggard
- William Hope Hodgson
- Jerome K. Jerome[2]
- Rudyard Kipling[2]
- Eliza Lynn Linton
- Katherine Mansfield
- Richard Marsh
- Barry Pain[2]
- Joseph Parker
- W. Pett Ridge
- Eden Phillpotts[2]
- Arthur Quiller-Couch
- Jean Richepin
- Morley Roberts
- William Clark Russell
- Francis Saltus Saltus
- Evelyn Sharp
- George Robert Sims
- Mark Twain[2]
- Allen Upward[2]
- Mary Augusta Ward as Mrs Humphry
- H. G. Wells
- Gleeson White
- John Strange Winter
- Israel Zangwill[2]
Artists[]
- Lewis Baumer
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Frank Brangwyn
- Cynicus (Martin Anderson)
- Florence Fuller
- Hal Hurst
- George Wylie Hutchinson
- Richard Jack
- H. R. Millar
- John Bernard Partridge
- Charles Pears
- Frederick Pegram
- Melton Prior
- Sidney Sime
- Frederic Villiers
- Rob Wagner
- Louis Wain
- John L. Wimbush
References[]
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.
- Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
- Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom
- Magazines established in 1892
- Magazines disestablished in 1911