The Anglo-Saxon Review

The Anglo-Saxon Review

The Anglo-Saxon Review quarterly miscellany edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill. Published in London by, John Lane.

It was short lived from June 1899 to Sept. 1901 [http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?lang=en&booknr=340347725 [CHURCHILL, Lady Randolph Spencer.; The Anglo-Saxon Review. A Quarterly Miscellany Edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill ] ] [http://www.harringtonbooks.co.uk/sets.html Leather Bound Sets of Works or Collections - First Editions and Rare ] ]

Each issue was individually decorated in a highly elaborate pattern of gilt tooling on leather covers, prices for a full set can range up to $7000.00 [ http://www.wscbooks.com/bookstore/customer/product.php?productid=167130&cat=253&page=3]

The first-year subscription list is astonishing of about six hundred individuals and institutions named, there are heads of state, royalty, and some of the wealthiest families of Britain and the United States. An impressive portion of the magazine’s contributors were, too, members of the nobility, officers of the Church of England, members of parliament, titled servants of the crown, and foreign dignitaries.

Her son Winston Churchill was one of her devoted advisors during the months preceding publication. He suggested that the magazine take as its purpose “to preserve a permanent record of the thoughts and aspirations of our times, which vary as swiftly as light changes on running water, for wiser ages yet unborn.”

It contains articles by such noted individuals as Henry James, Winston Churchill,George Gissing,Stephen Crane,Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Robert Barr,Henry Duff Traill,Henry Swinburne [ [http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8080/exist/mjp/maglistviewer.xq Resource not found ] ] [ http://books.google.com/books?id=-uzry987mP4C&dq=A+Stephen+Crane+Encyclopedia+&pg=PP1&ots=cdf3d8It3S&sig=ThOWxCt9uOSFSrm3OvA_r5en1FY&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft%253Aen-US%26q%3DA%2BStephen%2BCrane%2BEncyclopedia%2B&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title#PPA53,M1] and Ethel Rolt Wheeler.

A fictional account of the magazine's creation is provided by Robin Paige in the novel, "Death at Whitechapel."

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