Fun (magazine)

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Fun was a Victorian weekly magazine first published on September 21 1861.^[1] The magazine was founded by H. J. Byron. Notable contributors included Tom Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, whose Bab Ballads were almost all published in its pages, Tom Hood, Clement Scott and F. C. Burnand (who defected to Punch in 1862).

The fun gang frequented the Arundel Club, the Savage Club, and especially Evans's café, where they had a table in competition with the Punch 'Round table'. ^[2]

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1. ^ Fun, Volume 1.
2. ^ See Schoch, Richard, Performing Bohemia (2004) (copy downloaded 13 October 2006). See also Tom Robertson's play Society, which fictionalised the evenings in Evans's café in one scene.