The Yellow Book (Bookshelf)
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The Yellow Book, published in London from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland, was a quarterly literary periodical (priced at 5s.) that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s. The Yellow Book's brilliant color immediately associated the periodical with illicit French novels- an anticipation, many thought, of the scurrilous content inside. Yet The Yellow Book's first list of contributors bespoke a non-radical, typically conservative collection of authors: Edmund Gosse, Walter Crane, Frederick Leighton, and Henry James among others.
—Excerpted from The Yellow Book on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
