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 Barr
August 1895 - November 1897: Jerome Klapka Jerome
1898 - 1901: Arthur Lawrence and Sidney Sime
1902 - 1911: Robert Barr
William Livingston Alden
Robert Barr
Arthur William Beckett
Max Beerbohm
Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes as M. A. Belloc
Raymond Blathwayt
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Addison Bright
G. B. Burgin
Hall Caine
William Canton
Albert Chevalier
Roy Compton
May Crommelin
Aleister Crowley
Guy de Maupassant
Arthur Conan Doyle
Archibald Forbes
Kirby Hare
H. Rider Haggard
William Hope Hodgson
Jerome K. Jerome
Rudyard Kipling
Arthur H. Lawrence
Eliza Lynn Linton
Katherine Mansfield
Richard Marsh
Frank Mathew
J. F. Nisbet
Barry Pain
Joseph Parker
W. Pett Ridge
Eden Phillpotts
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Lilian Quiller-Couch
Jean Richepin
Morley Roberts
William Clark Russell
Francis Saltus Saltus
Evelyn Sharp
Robert H. Sherard
George Robert Sims
Lincoln Springfield
Mark Twain
Allen Upward
Mary Augusta Ward as Mrs Humphry
H. G. Wells
Gleeson White
John Strange Winter
Israel Zangwill
Sydney Adamson
Frank Barnard
Lewis Baumer
Ada Bowley
Frank Brangwyn
Dion Clayton Calthrop
Max Cowper
Cynicus (Martin Anderson)
Archibald Stevenson Forrest (1869 - 1963)
Florence Fuller
James Grieg
John Gulich
Hal Hurst
George Wylie Hutchinson
Ronald Ian
Richard Jack
Ernest Jessop
J. Kerr Lawson
H. R. Millar
John Bernard Partridge
Charles Pears
Frederick Pegram
Melton Prior
R. Sauber
Andrew Scott Rankin
Sidney Sime
Frederic Villiers
Aubrey Beardsley
Penryn Stanley
Robert Sauber
Louis Wain
Rob Wagner
