The_Chap-Book

<i>The Chap-Book</i>

The Chap-Book

Add article description

The Chap-Book was an American literary magazine between 1894 and 1898. It is often classified as one of the first "little magazines" of the 1890s.[1]

Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley

The first edition of The Chap-Book was dated 15 May 1894. Its editor was Herbert Stuart Stone and it was published by Stone and Kimball. It was originally published in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but after six months moved to Chicago, Illinois when Stone and Kimball relocated to Chicago.

The Chap-Book was published twice monthly. Its final issue was issued on 1 July 1898. After this, it merged with The Dial.

Contributors to The Chap-Book included Henry James, Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field, Bliss Carman, Julian Hawthorne, Max Beerbohm, W. E. Henley, H. G. Wells and William Sharp.

References

  1. [1]
    (1982). The Chap-Book: A Journal of American Intellectual Life in the 1890s (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press) by Wendy Clauson Schlereth
  • James D. Hart (1986). The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (New York: Oxford University Press) s.v. "Chap-Book, The".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Chap-Book.


Stub icon

This article about a literary magazine published in the US is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article The_Chap-Book, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.