Category:The Idler
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Titles
- The Idler 1892-1896
- The Idler Magazine 1896-1911[1]
Editors
- Robert Barr (1892-1911)
- Jerome Klapka Jerome (1892-97)
- G.B. Burgin (sub-editor)
- Arthur Lawrence (1898-99)
- Sidney H. Sime (1899-1901)[2]
Overview
The Idler was a monthly periodical published in London from 1892-1911.[3] The title comes from its target audience: the idle gentleman of late Victorian Britain, a man who needs an inexhaustible supply of anecdotes, preferably told with feigned first-hand experience. Essentially, it was an 18th century gentleman’s club magazine, though readership did include women and youth.[4] Although the content changed with time, some long-running sections of the monthly include “The Idlers’ Club” (a collection of advice from authors on living the idle lifestyle), “My First Book” (tales of authors’ first successes), and “Lions in their Dens” (spotlights on prominent members of society).
The publication’s original editor was Jerome K. Jerome who, along with co-founder Robert Barr, guided the periodical from its inception until 1897 when he had to sell his stake in the magazine due to losses in a libel suit.[5] The journal met almost immediate success as its first issue contained a new serialized story by Mark Twain. Other well-known authors who published in “The Idler” include Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, and A. Conan Doyle. Contributing authors include Bret Harte, Israel Zangwill, W. W. Jacobs, and Robert Barr’s pseudonym “Luke Sharpe.”[6]
For Further Reading
Humpherys, Anna. "Putting Women in the Boat in The Idler (1892-1898) and TO-DAY (1893-1897). 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 1 (2005). http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/.
"Idler, The; an illustrated monthly magazine." Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals.
Thesing, William B. and Becky Lewis. Indexes to Fiction in The Idler 1892-1911. Queensland, Australia: Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, University of Queensland, 1994. Victorian Secrets. 2013. http://www.victoriansecrets.co.uk/victorian-fiction-research-guides/the-idler/.
Notes
- ↑ WD
- ↑ WD
- ↑ WD
- ↑ Dan Glaister. “Idle Idols: Jerome K. Jerome.” The Idler. The Idler 5 (July 1994 1894?). Web. 22 Feb. 2011.
- ↑ DNB
- ↑ WD
Submitted by: Moberly, David: section 1, Fall 2007 and Livingston, Gregory: section 1, Winter 2011
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