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."
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※
- ^ (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".
External links※
- The Chap-Book all volumes digitized at HathiTrust
- Stone and Kimball Collection: Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century publications of Stone and Kimball, (182 titles). From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress
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