PEARSON'S WEEKLY

PEARSON'S WEEKLY
   UK 16pp tabloid magazine published by C.A. Pearson Ltd; ed Peter Keary and others. Weekly, 26 July 1890-1 Apr 1939. Retitled The New Pearson and Today from 17 Sep 1938, and The New Pearson's Weekly from 26 Nov 1938.Incorporated into Tit-Bits from 8 Apr 1939.PW popularized sf in Victorian magazines with the publication of George GRIFFITH's The Angel of the Revolution (1893; cut 1893), following it with other serials by Griffith,H. Rider HAGGARD, Louis TRACY and M.P. SHIEL, and also H.G. WELLS's The Invisible Man (1897; rev 1897). Many short sf stories appeared during this period, with further stories appearing sporadically into the 1930s.
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