Ainslee's Magazine
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 June 1921 cover | |
| Categories | Literary magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Ainslee magazine Co. |
| First issue | 1897 |
| Final issue | December 1926 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| OCLC | 1478612 |
Ainslee's Magazine was an American literary periodical published from 1897 to December 1926. It was originally published as a humor magazine called The Yellow Kid, based on the popular comic strip character. It was renamed Ainslee's the following year.
The magazine's publishers were Howard, Ainslee & Co., a division of the Street & Smith publishing house in New York City.
Contributors
[edit]Among those who contributed essays, short stories, or poetry to Ainslee's:
- Stephen Crane
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Theodore Dreiser
- Frances Gaither
- Maud Hart Lovelace
- Bret Harte
- O. Henry
- Anthony Hope
- Jack London
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Constance Lindsay Skinner
- Albert Payson Terhune
- Stanley J. Weyman
- P. G. Wodehouse
- I. A. R. Wylie
From 1920 to 1923 Dorothy Parker wrote the monthly drama reviews column, "In Broadway Playhouses". Edith Isaacs worked as a critic for the magazine prior to her tenure at Theatre Arts.[1]
Ainslee's was published until December 1926, after which it was merged into Far West Illustrated, a western-fiction magazine.
In 1934, Street & Smith revived Ainslee's Magazine as a "sophisticated love-story monthly" edited by Daisy Bacon. In 1936, the title changed to Ainslee’s Smart Love Stories, then finally Smart Love Stories. It was discontinued in 1938.
Publication details
[edit]Ainslee's switched from a 10¢ cover price to 15¢ with the October 1902 issue, allegedly the first magazine with a 15¢ price.
The magazine switched from slick to pulp paper with the February 1914 issue (it had slick ad sections front and back throughout).
References
[edit]- ↑ Barbara Sicherman; Carol Hurd Green (1980). Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. pp. 370–. ISBN 978-0-674-62733-8.
External links
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