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Yellow Nineties Networks uses COVE tools (maps, timelines, galleries) to visualize the communities that supported the makers of the 8 late-Victorian little magazines remediated on Yellow Nineties 2.0. https://1890s.ca

Y90s magazines include The Dial (1889-1897); The Evergreen:A Northern Seasonal (1895-1896); The Green Sheaf (1903-1904); The Pagan Review (1892); The Pageant (1896-1897); The Savoy (1896); The Venture (1903-1905); and The Yellow Book (1894-1897).

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Portrait of Laurence Housman | Gallery Image

William Rothenstein created this lithograph of Laurence Housman in 1898, when Housman was 33 years old. Three years later, in 1901,  Laurence and his sister Clemence moved into Rothenstein's former home in South Kensington, 1 Pembroke Cottage, which became their London address until they moved to Street, Somerset, in the 1920s.In 1909,  their shared home and garden studio became… more

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Title Page for The Blue Moon | Gallery Image

The title page for The Blue Moon was designed by Laurence Housman and engraved by his sister Clemence Housman, who was one of the period's foremost facsimile wood engravers. It was the only reproductive wood engraving included in volume 1 of The Venture (1903), whose artworks, with this single exception, featured original wood engravings designed and cut by the same artist.… more

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Front Cover of The Venture, vol. 1 (1903) | Gallery Image

Laurence Housman designed the front cover of The Venture (vol. 1) as an homage to first cover of The Dial, designed by Charles Ricketts and engraved by Charles Shannon in 1889. Housman co-edited volume 1 of The Venture with Somerset Maugham. He also contributeda his fanciful "Proverbial Romances" to the volume's literary pieces and his title page design for his new… more

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The Barren Life | Gallery Image

Laurence Housman's controversial image, "The Barren Life," was published in The Yellow Book, vol. 10, July 1896.

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The Invisible Princess | Gallery Image

Laurence Housman published his self-illustrated fairy tale, "Blind Love," in volume 2 of The Pageant (1897), edited by Charles Shannon and Gleeson White. His detailed line drawing for the story, titled "The Invisible Princess," is part of the volume's artwork, but not published adjacent to or within the pages of "Blind Love," rendering their relationship opaque. 

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Death and the Bather | Gallery Image

The black-and-white line drawing shows a naked man with flowers in his hair int he foreground at right, gesturing to a group of naked men grouped on the river bank behind him. Housman's pen-and-inl image was reproduced in The Pageant, vol. 1 (1896), edited by Charles Shannon and Gleeson White.

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The Reflected Faun | Gallery Image

Pen-and-ink drawing by Laurence Housman. Published in The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894.

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The Dial, vol. 1 (1889) | Gallery Image

The first volume of The DIal, one of the earliest of the late-Victorian little magazines, was edited and self-published by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, who aimed to emulate the Pre-Raphaelite Germ of 1850. Their magazine of art and literature appeared in August 1889, with a wood engraved paper cover designed by Ricketts and engraved by Shannon. Laurence Housman… more

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Y90s Networks Timeline | Timeline

This timeline reocrds events and activities related to the little magazine community associated with Y90s magazines. 

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