Category:The Savoy
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Title(s)
- The Savoy (1896)
Editor(s)
- Aubrey Beardsley (1896)
- Arthur Symons (1896)
Overview
The Savoy was created by Leonard Smithers in 1895 as a rival to The Yellow Book.[1] After Aubrey Beardsley was dismissed from The Yellow Book, Smithers instated Beardsley as the artistic editor and appointed Arthur Symons as literary editor. [2] According to The Waterloo Directory, The Savoy argued it would not resemble The Yellow Book by refusing to be "timid for the convenience of the elderly minded." [3] The purpose of the periodical was to spread art for art’s sake—which is a common theme of the Aesthetes, many of whom were friends of Symons—and to have a home for erotic and other controversial pieces that might not find a place elsewhere. Common authors included W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Aubrey Beardsley, and Symons himself. The Savoy only lasted a single year because of "Wilde's conviction for sodomy in 1895, poor sales and W.H. Smith's boycott." [4]
For Further Reading
“The Savoy.” Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals.
Notes
Submitted by: McClellan, Brian: section 1, Fall 2007
Articles in category "The Savoy"
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
