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as an offshoot of ''

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'', the magazine included poetry, short stories, serialized fiction, and general commentaries, along with extensive artwork. It was notable in its time as the first British magazine to "publish illustrations in number and finish comparable to those of American periodicals of the same class" much of which was in the late

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style. It was often compared to the competing publication ''

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''; many artists, such as illustrator

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and author

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, sold freelance work to both. During its run, the magazine published many of the most significant artists of the day, including illustrators George Morrow and Edmund Joseph Sullivan, poets

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and

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, and authors such as

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, Bernard Capes,

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, and

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, whose novel ''

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'' was first serialized therein, and

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(author of '' Children of the Ghetto''). Among the magazine's editors were

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(1893–1896),

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(1896–1900),

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(1901–1905) and Charles Morley (1905–1914). On 6 October 1912, ''

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'' reported that Waldorf Astor had sold the magazine, "Said to Have Obtained Very Little for It." In 1914, as romantic ideas faded with the onset of the

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, ''The Pall Mall Magazine'' merged with ''Nash's Magazine'', controlled by the

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since 1910, to become ''

Nash's Pall Mall Magazine Nash's (F. C. Nash & Co.) was a Pasadena, California-based department store which grew into a small chain. Nash's was founded in 1889 by Hammond G. Nash, who developed his grocery on Colorado Street into a full department store. He continued to op ...

''. From May 1927, the two magazines were again published separately, but they were re-merged after the September 1929 issue, and finally ceased publication altogether following the issue of September 1937.

References

External links

''The Pall Mall Magazine'', Vol. 5
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