Black and White (magazine)

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Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was a British illustrated weekly periodical established in 1891. In 1912 it was incorporated with The Sphere.

In its first year Black and White published 'A Straggler of '15', a short story by Conan Doyle, and began serializing 'The South Seas', a series of letters by Robert Louis Stevenson.[1] It published fiction by Henry James, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Robert Barr, A. E. W. Mason, Jerome K. Jerome and E. Nesbit.[2] Others who wrote for Black and White included Samuel Bensusan (1872-1958), Philip Howard Colomb, Nora Hopper, Henry Dawson Lowry (1869-1906), Robert Wilson Lynd and Barry Pain. The periodical carried art by Harry Furniss, Mortimer Menpes, and Richard Caton Woodville, and photography by Horace Nicholls (1867-1941). [3]

Oswald Crawfurd (1834-1909) was a director of Black and White on its establishment. Eden Philpotts worked as part-time assistant editor in the 1890s,[4] and Arthur Mee worked as an editor in the late 1890s.[5]

The British Library has a complete run of Black and White.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ ODNB
  2. ^ Magazine Data File
  3. ^ ODNB
  4. ^ Thomas Moult, ‘Phillpotts, Eden (1862–1960)’, rev. James Y. Dayananda, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 2 Jan 2008
  5. ^ ODNB
  6. ^ Select List of Victorian Illustrated Newspapers and Journals in British Library Newspapers