The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the author Robert Barr, who brought in the humorist Jerome K. Jerome as co-editor, and its contributors included many of the leading writers and illustrators of the time.
The Idler generally catered to the popular taste, printing light pieces and sensational fiction. The magazine published short stories, serialised novels, humour pieces, poetry, memoirs, travel writing, book and theatre reviews and interviews. It also included a monthly feature called 'The Idlers' Club,' in which a number of writers would offer their views on a particular topic.
Most of The Idler's contributors were popular and prolific writers of the time. Some of them, such as Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain, are still read today.
February 1892 - July 1895: Jerome Klapka Jerome and Robert BarrAugust 1895 - November 1897: Jerome Klapka Jerome1898 - 1901: Arthur Lawrence and Sidney Sime1902 - 1911: Robert BarrWilliam Livingston AldenRobert BarrArthur William BeckettMax BeerbohmMarie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes as M. A. BellocRaymond BlathwaytMary Elizabeth BraddonAddison BrightG. B. BurginHall CaineWilliam CantonAlbert ChevalierRoy ComptonMay CrommelinAleister CrowleyGuy de MaupassantArthur Conan DoyleArchibald ForbesKirby HareH. Rider HaggardWilliam Hope HodgsonJerome K. JeromeRudyard KiplingArthur H. LawrenceEliza Lynn LintonKatherine MansfieldRichard MarshFrank MathewJ. F. NisbetBarry PainJoseph ParkerW. Pett RidgeEden PhillpottsArthur Quiller-CouchLilian Quiller-CouchJean RichepinMorley RobertsWilliam Clark RussellFrancis Saltus SaltusEvelyn SharpRobert H. SherardGeorge Robert SimsLincoln SpringfieldMark TwainAllen UpwardMary Augusta Ward as Mrs HumphryH. G. WellsGleeson WhiteJohn Strange WinterIsrael ZangwillSydney AdamsonFrank BarnardLewis BaumerAda BowleyFrank BrangwynDion Clayton CalthropMax CowperCynicus (Martin Anderson)Archibald Stevenson Forrest (1869 - 1963)Florence FullerJames GriegJohn GulichHal HurstGeorge Wylie HutchinsonRonald IanRichard JackErnest JessopJ. Kerr LawsonH. R. MillarJohn Bernard PartridgeCharles PearsFrederick PegramMelton PriorR. SauberAndrew Scott RankinSidney SimeFrederic VilliersAubrey BeardsleyPenryn StanleyRobert SauberLouis WainRob Wagner
