The Novel Magazine

The Novel Magazine, No. 1, 1905.

The Novel Magazine was the first British all-fiction pulp magazine. It was Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson's rival to Sir George Newnes's The Grand Magazine.[1]

Previously titled The Lady's Magazine (January 1901 to June 1904), The Lady's Home Magazine (July 1904 - October 1904) and The Home Magazine of Fiction (November 1904 to March 1905), the first edition of The Novel Magazine was published in April 1905.[2]

Under its final incarnation, The Novel Magazine continued until December 1937 when thereafter, it was subsumed by its rival, The Grand Magazine. Former notable editors of The Novel Magazine included Sir Percy Everett (1905-1912), E. C. Vivian (1912–14 and 1919-1922),[3] and Roy Vickers (1915-1918).[4]

Contributors of fiction to The Novel Magazine and its predecessors included Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Rafael Sabatini,[5] Murray Leinster,[6] Agatha Christie, Elinor Glyn, R. Austin Freeman, Edgar Wallace, Sax Rohmer, Baroness Orczy and P. G. Wodehouse.[7] The Novel Magazine also published ghost stories and weird fiction by Barry Pain, A. M. Burrage, Elliott O'Donnell, and "Theo Douglas" (the pseudonym of H. D. Everett).[8]

  1. ^ Ashley, Mike. (2005) The Age of the Story Tellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950. London: British Library. ISBN 9780712306980
  2. ^ "The Lady's Magazine [1901]". Magazine Data.
  3. ^ Adrian, Jack, "Vivian, E(velyn) C(harles)", in the St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers, edited by David Pringle. Detroit, St. James Press, 1996. ISBN 9781558622050 (pp. 577–80).
  4. ^ "The Lady's Magazine [1901]". Magazine Data.
  5. ^ Adrian, Jack, and Cox, Michael, The Oxford Book of Historical Stories. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780192832085 (p. xiv)
  6. ^ "Publication: The Novel Magazine, December 1919". ISFDB.
  7. ^ Glover, David & McCracken, Scott, The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012 ISBN 1107493854, (p.26)
  8. ^ Adrian, Jack, "Introduction" to Burrage, A.M., The Occult Files of Francis Chard: Some Ghost Stories. Ashcroft, British Columbia, Ash-Tree Press, 1996 ISBN 978-1-899562-20-6