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
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.
References
- ^ 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
Media related to Ainslee's Magazine at Wikimedia Commons
Works related to Ainslee's Magazine at Wikisource- Gallery of Covers
