The Ludgate Monthly
''The Ludgate Monthly'' was a London-based monthly magazine, which published short fiction and articles of general interest. There were 118 issues from May 1891 to February 1901; the magazine then merged with ''The Universal Magazine''. The magazine was published from May 1891 to October 1893 under the title ''The Ludgate Monthly'' for 30 issues, from November 1893 to October 1895 under the title ''The Ludgate Illustrated Magazine'' for 24 issues, from November 1895 to February 1901 under the title ''The Ludgate'' for 64 issues, and was then merged into ''The Universal Magazine''. ''The Ludgate Weekly'' was a spinoff magazine which lasted less than a year (from 5 March to 1 October 1892); the first issue of this weekly had a Conan Doyle stor''The Great Brown-Pericord Motor'' Philip May (the novelist, not the caricaturist Phil May), was the editor of ''The Ludgate Monthly'' from its 1891 inception (selling for three pence per copy) to 1894. The first issue contained stories by Ru ...
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The Universal Magazine (1900 Monthly)
''The Universal Magazine'' was a short-lived, London-based monthly magazine, which published non-fiction articles of general interest and some short fiction. There were 21 issues from February 1900 to January 1902, but with no issues for 3 months (April, August, and September) in the year 1900. Each copy of the magazine was sold for six pence. The magazine was published for 12 issues from February 1900 to April 1901 (with 3 months omitted) under the title ''The Universal Magazine'', for 7 issues from May 1901 to November 1901 under the title ''The Universal and Ludgate Magazine'', and then for 2 issues from December 1901 to January 1902 under the title ''The Universal Magazine''. From February 1900 to October 1900, the editor was Alexis Maria de Beck, and from November 1900 to January 1902, the editor was Raymond Blathwayt (1855–1935). From February 1900 to October 1900, the publisher was Horace Marshall & Son and from November 1900 to November 1901 the publisher was A.M. de Be ...
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Phil May (caricaturist)
Philip William May (22 April 1864 – 5 August 1903) was an England, English caricaturist who, with his vigorous economy of line, played an important role in moving away from Victorian styles of illustration towards the creation of the modern humorous cartoon. Biography Phil May was born at Wortley, West Yorkshire, Wortley, near Leeds, the son of an engineer, who died when May was nine years old. His mother was the daughter of Eugene Macarthy, one time manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She was left in very poor circumstances and the family had a great struggle to exist. May's grandfather, a country gentleman, had some talent as a draughtsman and liked drawing caricatures. At the age of twelve, in Leeds, May became friendly with Fred Fox, whose father was the scenic artist at the recently opened Grand Theatre. That gave him a free run of the theatre, where he used to sketch sections of other people's designs for costumes, as well as sketching actors' portraits, for which ...
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the ''Jungle Book'' duology ('' The Jungle Book'', 1894; '' The Second Jungle Book'', 1895), ''Kim'' (1901), the '' Just So Stories'' (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include " Mandalay" (1890), " Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), " The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story.Rutherford, Andrew (1987). General Preface to the Editions of Rudyard Kipling, in "Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies", by Rudyard Kipling. Oxford University Press. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".Rutherford, Andrew ( ...
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John Augustus O'Shea
John Augustus O'Shea (24 June 1839 – 13 March 1905) was an Irish soldier, journalist and novelist. Biography Born at Nenagh, Ireland, the son of journalist John O'Shea, in 1856 he was sent to study medicine at the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin. Two of his sisters, Elizabeth and Marion, were also writers. Another sister, Margaret (Mrs Kelly) (1854–1927) was noted as being fluent in a number of languages, and translated French works, and her brother Robert Gabriel (1854?–1882) was the London political correspondent for the ''Freeman's Journal''. Later that year he journeyed to London where he sought work as a journalist. He left to serve in Pope Pius IX's Irish battalion. During the 1860 siege of Ancona, he reported on the conflict for a newspaper in America. Following his military service for the Papacy, he was hired as a correspondent by the ''New York Herald'' and reported on the Austro-Prussian War in 1866. In 1869 he was a special correspondent for the ''Even ...
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Florence Marryat
Florence Marryat (9 July 1833 – 27 October 1899) was a British author and actress. The daughter of author Capt. Frederick Marryat, she was particularly known for her sensational novels and her involvement with several celebrated spiritual mediums of the late 19th century. Her works include ''Love’s Conflict'' (1865), ''Her Father's Name'' (1876), ''There is No Death'' (1891) and ''The Spirit World'' (1894), ''The Dead Man's Message'' (1894) and ''The Blood of the Vampire'' (1897). She was a prolific author, writing around 70 books, as well as newspaper and magazine articles, short stories and works for the stage. From 1876 to 1890, she had a performing career, at first writing and performing a comic touring piano sketch entertainment, together with George Grossmith and later performing in dramas, comedies, comic opera with a D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, her own one-woman show, and appearing as a lecturer, dramatic reader and public entertainer. During the 1890s, she ran a s ...
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Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-born British writer of romance and adventure novels. He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: ''The Sea Hawk'' (1915), ''Scaramouche'' (1921), ''Captain Blood'' (a.k.a. ''Captain Blood: His Odyssey'') (1922), and ''Bellarion the Fortunate'' (1926). In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays. Biography Rafael Sabatini was born in Iesi, Italy, to an English-speaking mother, Anna Trafford, and Italian father, Vincenzo Sabatini. His parents were opera singers who then became teachers. At a young age, Sabatini was exposed to many languages, living with his grandfather in Britain, attending school both in Portugal, and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was 17, when he returned to Britain to live permanently, he had become proficient in five languages. He quickly added a sixth language – En ...
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James Nicol Dunn
James Nicol Dunn (12 October 185630 June 1919) was a Scottish journalist and newspaper editor, best known as the editor of London newspaper ''The Morning Post'' from 1897 to 1905 and as London editor of the ''Glasgow Evening News'' from 1914 until his death in 1919. Early life Dunn was born in Kincardineshire on 12 October 1856, the eldest son of Joseph Dunn and Margaret Dunn (née Macleod). Dunn was educated at Aberdeen, initially intending to study law, but work on journals and magazines while still a student encouraged him to enter journalism instead. Journalism Dunn had a varied career as a journalist across various newspapers and magazines in Scotland, England and South Africa until his death in 1919, "Moving between the metropolis and the provinces so as to belong almost equally to both." Dunn's career in journalism began in Scotland, first with the Dundee ''Advertiser'' (which he joined before he turned twenty) and later on as a member of the Glasgow and West Scotland ...
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Henry Dawson Lowry
Henry Dawson Lowry (22 February 1869 – 21 October 1906) was an English journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet. Early life Lowry was born at Truro, as the eldest son of Thomas Shaw Lowry, bank clerk at Truro, afterwards bank manager at Camborne, by his wife Winifred Dawson of Redhill. Catherine Amy Dawson Scott was his cousin. Educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and then at the University of Oxford (unattached to a particular Oxford college) with B.A. in chemistry in 1891. Writing and career In 1891, Lowry's Cornish stories were accepted by W. E. Henley for publication in the ''National Observer'' and a number of his subsequent novels focussed on life in Cornwall. Two years later, in 1893 Lowry took up residence in London and wrote for the ''Pall Mall Gazette'', becoming a staff member in 1895. Subsequent to this, Lowry was on the staff of ''Black and White'' from 1895 to 1897. Early in 1897, Lowry became the editor of the ''Ludgate Magazine'' and later in t ...
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1891 Establishments In The United Kingdom
Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. ** Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 6 – Encounters continue, between strikers and the authorities at Glasgow. * January 7 ** General Miles' forces s ...
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1901 Disestablishments In The United Kingdom
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Monthly Magazines Published In The United Kingdom
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Defunct Magazines Published In The United Kingdom
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