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| Categories | Literary magazine | 
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly | 
| Publisher | Ainslee magazine Co. | 
| First issue | 1897 | 
| Final issue | December 1926 | 
| Country | United States | 
| Based in | New York City | 
| Language | English | 
| OCLC | 1478612 | 
Ainslee's Magazine was an American literary periodical published from 1897 to December 1926. It was originally published as a humor magazine called The Yellow Kid, based on the popular comic strip character. It was renamed Ainslee's the following year.
The magazine's publishers were Howard, Ainslee & Co., a division of the Street & Smith publishing house in New York City.
Contributors
Among those who contributed essays, short stories, or poetry to Ainslee's:
- Stephen Crane
 - Arthur Conan Doyle
 - Theodore Dreiser
 - Frances Gaither
 - Maud Hart Lovelace
 - Bret Harte
 - O. Henry
 - Anthony Hope
 - Jack London
 - Edna St. Vincent Millay
 - E. Phillips Oppenheim
 - Constance Lindsay Skinner
 - Albert Payson Terhune
 - Stanley J. Weyman
 - P. G. Wodehouse
 - I. A. R. Wylie
 
From 1920 to 1923 Dorothy Parker wrote the monthly drama reviews column, "In Broadway Playhouses". Edith Isaacs worked as a critic for the magazine prior to her tenure at Theatre Arts.[1]
Ainslee's was published until December 1926, after which it was merged into Far West Illustrated.
References
- ↑ Barbara Sicherman; Carol Hurd Green (1980). Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. pp. 370–. ISBN 978-0-674-62733-8.
 
External links
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 Works related to Ainslee's Magazine at Wikisource- Gallery of Covers
 
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