''Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture'' (1898–1907), established by
Eugen Sandow
Eugen Sandow (born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, ; 2 April 1867 – 14 October 1925) was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia. He was born in Königsberg, and became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy.
Aft ...
in London,
in 1898, may be regarded as the first
bodybuilding
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magazine.
Founded in July 1898 under the name ''Physical Culture'', the magazine was renamed ''Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture'' in April 1899. It was also known as ''Sandow's magazine of physical culture and British sport''.
It closed, due to a decline in interest, in June 1907.
[Article on Sandow by Mark Pottle.]
Howard Spicer
Sir Howard Handley Spicer KBE, (1872 in Bexley, Kent – 16 August 1926 in London) was a prominent papermaker and wholesale stationer and a magazine editor. He was the founder of the Empire League, a patriotic movement for British boys, and ed ...
was editor. Contributors included the
music-hall
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artist
Dan Leno
George Wild Galvin (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904), better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era. He was best known, aside from his music hall a ...
, and several young writers who would subsequently achieve fame:
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ( ; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Je ...
,
H. H. Munro
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and cu ...
and
George Douglas Brown
George Douglas Brown (26 January 1869 – 28 August 1902) was a Scottish novelist, best known for his highly influential realist novel ''The House with the Green Shutters'' (1901), which was published the year before his death at the age of 33 ...
.
References
External links
Holdings list of the Wellcome Collection.
Bodybuilding magazines
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1898
Magazines disestablished in 1907
Defunct sports magazines published in the United Kingdom
Physical culture
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