Literary magazine · United Kingdom
The Yellow Book
Literary magazine. Founded 1894 in United Kingdom. Ceased 1897.
About The Yellow Book
The Yellow Book was a British quarterly literary periodical that was published in London from 1894 to 1897. It was published at The Bodley Head Publishing House by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland. The periodical was priced at 5 shillings (£0.25, equivalent to £28 in 2025) and its name contributed to the decade of its operation being referred to as the "Yellow Nineties".
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Legacy
The Yellow Book ceased publication in 1897. Back issues are often held by research libraries and digital archives.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q926352 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).