 Bound issues of Pearson's magazine | |
| Editor | C. Arthur Pearson (1896–1899) Percy W. Everett (1900–1911) Philip O'Farrell (1912–1919) John Reed Wade (1920–1939) W.E. Johns (1939) |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | C. Arthur Pearson |
| First issue | 1896 |
| Final issue Number | November 1939 527 |
| Company | Pearson Publishing Company |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
Pearson's Magazine was a monthly periodical that first appeared in Britain in 1896. A US version began publication in 1899. It specialised in speculative literature, political discussion, often of a socialist bent, and the arts. Its contributors included Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Upton Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, Maxim Gorky, George Griffith, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Rafael Sabatini, Sapper, Dornford Yates and E. Phillips Oppenheim, many of whose short stories and novelettes first saw publication in Pearson's.
It was the first British periodical to publish a crossword puzzle, in February 1922.[1]
- ^ Rose, Alexander (2005-11-21). "Eighty-one squares, oh joy: the greatness of the new 'timewaster,' Sudoku". National Review.
Though it wasn't the very first British rag to print a crossword (the dubious honor goes to Pearson's Magazine in 1922) the Times was far-sighted enough to buy the idea of a daily crossword in 1930.