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The Yellow Book, with a cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( August 21, 1872 &ndash March 16, 1898) was an influential English

The Yellow Book, published in London from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland, was a quarterly literary periodical (priced at 5s. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Charles Elkin Mathews ( 1851 - 10 November 1921 was a Publisher and Bookseller who played an important role in the literary life of John Lane ( 14 March 1854 - 2 February 1925) was a British publisher Henry Harland ( March 1, 1861 - December 20, 1905) was an American Novelist and editor. Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally ) that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s.

It was a leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article is about aestheticism a term with a root meaning of sensuous Not to be confused with the religious practice of Asceticism: an abstinence from the sensual In 19th century European and especially French literature, Decadence was the name given first by hostile critics and then triumphantly adopted by some writers Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor, and he has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, with its association with French fiction of the period. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( August 21, 1872 &ndash March 16, 1898) was an influential English He obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert, and Philip Wilson Steer. Charles Edward Conder ( 24 October, 1868 – 9 February, 1909) was an English -born painter, who emigrated to Australia Sir William Rothenstein, ( January 29 1872 &ndash February 14 1945) was an English painter, draughtsman and writer on John Singer Sargent (January 12 1856 &ndash April 14 1925 was the most successful portrait painter of his era During his career he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than Walter Richard Sickert ( May 31, 1860 in Munich, Germany &ndash January 22, 1942 in Bath, England Philip Wilson Steer OM ( 28 Dec 1860 &ndash 18 March 1942) was an English artist The literary content was no less distinguished; authors found within its pages during the three years of its existence include:

Though Oscar Wilde never published anything within its pages, it was linked to him because Beardsley had illustrated his Salomé and because he was on friendly terms with many of the contributors. Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm ( August 24, 1872 &ndash May 20, 1956) was an English parodist and caricaturist. Enoch Arnold Bennett ( 27 May 1867 - 27 March 1931) was an English Novelist. Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe' ( July 22, 1860 Ernest Christopher Dowson ( 2 August 1867 &ndash 23 February 1900) born in Lee London, was an English Poet George Gissing (ˈɡɪsɪŋ November 22, 1857 &ndash December 28, 1903) was an English Novelist who wrote twenty-three Henry James, OM ( –) son of theologian Henry James Sr, brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James Edmund William Gosse ( September 21, 1849 &ndash May 16, 1928) was an English Poet, author and critic the son of Philip Richard Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947 was an English Man of letters, closely associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s after that he resided in the USA without Charlotte Mary Mew ( November 15, 1869 – March 24, 1928) was an English Poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian Arthur William Symons ( 28 February 1865 &ndash 22 January 1945) was a British Poet, Critic and Magazine editor Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 &ndash 13 August 1946 He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, his later works becoming increasingly political Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of Salome (or in French: Salomé) is a Tragedy by Oscar Wilde.The original 1891 version of the play was in Moreover, in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), a major corrupting influence on Dorian is "the yellow book" which Lord Henry sends over to amuse him after the suicide of his first love. This "yellow book" is understood by critics to be À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, a representative work of Parisian decadence that heavily influenced British aesthetes like Beardsley. À rebours (translated into English as Against the Grain or Against Nature) ( 1884) is a Novel by the Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans ( February 5, 1848 – May 12, 1907) was a French Novelist who published his works as Such books in Paris were wrapped in yellow paper to alert the reader to their lascivious content. It is not clear, however, whether Dorian Gray is the direct source for the review's title. Soon after Wilde was arrested in April 1895 Beardsley was dismissed as the periodical's art editor, his post taken over by the publisher, John Lane, assisted by another artist, Patten Wilson. Although critics have contended that the quality of its contents declined after Beardsley left and that the Yellow Book became a vehicle for promoting the work of Lane's authors, a remarkably high standard in both art and literature was maintained until the periodical ceased publication in the spring of 1897. A notable feature was the inclusion of work by women writers and illustrators, among them Ella D'Arcy and Ethel Colburn Mayne (both also served as Harland's subeditors), George Egerton, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Ada Leverson, Netta and Nellie Syrett, and Ethel Reed. Ella D'Arcy (1856?-1939 was an author of novels and short stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright (1859 &ndash 1945 better known by her Pen name George Egerton, was a British writer and feminist. Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860 &ndash 1911 was a Victorian poet and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R Ada Leverson (1862-August 1933 nee Beddington was a British writer now known as a Novelist.

Perhaps indicative of the "Yellow Book's" past significance in literary circles of its day is a reference to it in a fictional piece thirty-three years after it ceased publication. American author Willa Cather noted its presence in the personal library of one of her characters in the short story, Double Birthday, noting that it had lost its "power to seduce and stimulate. Willa Sibert Cather ( December 7, 1873 &ndash April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. Double Birthday is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in Forum in February 1929. . . "

The Yellow Book differed from other periodicals in that it was issued clothbound, made a strict distinction between the literary and art contents (only in one or two instances were these connected), did not include serial fiction, and contained no advertisements except publishers' lists. Complete runs of the 13 quarterly volumes will be found in most academic (and many public) libraries, though many of these sets are, in fact, reprints produced after the turn of the century by Lane and by others. A guide to the magazine's contents, The Yellow Book: A Checklist and Index, by Mark Samuels Lasner, was published in 1998.

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All 13 volumes are available to download from www.archive.org in either djvu or pdf formats:

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