Table of Contents
Acknowledgements viii
List of Illustrations x
Foreword Simon F. James xi
Note on the Texts xiii
Introduction 1
I Little Magazines 27
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
'A Bundle of Letters: Giving a Selection from Three or Four of the Less Uninteresting of Them' (1888) Selwyn Image 27
'A Case of Conscience' (1891) Ernest Dowson 38
'The Statute of Limitations' (1893) Ernest Dowson 48
The Dial
'The Cup of Happiness' (1889) Charles Ricketts 56
'Sensations' (1889) Anon. [Charles Ricketts] 65
'A Simple Story' (1889) Charles Haslewood Shannon 68
The Pagan Review
'The Black Madonna' (1892) W. S. Fanshawe [William Sharp] 71
The Chameleon
'The Priest and the Acolyte' (1894) Anon. [John Francis Bloxam] 86
The Yellow Book
'A Lost Masterpiece: A City Mood, Aug. '93' (1894) George Egerton 98
'Modern Melodrama' (1894) Hubert Crackanthorpe 104
'Passed' (1894) Charlotte M. Mew 112
'Tobacco Clouds' (1894) Lionel Johnson 126
'To Every Man a Damsel or Two' (1894) 'C. S.' [presumed Henry Harland] 134
'Theodora: A Fragment' (1895) Victoria Cross 136
'The Crimson Weaver' (1895) R. Murray Gilchrist 159
'The Quest of Sorrow' (1896) Mrs Ernest [Ada] Leverson 166
'The Death Mask' (1896) Ella D'Arcy 174
The Savoy
'Ellen' (1896) Rudolph Dircks 181
'To Nancy' (1896) Frederick Wedmore 186
'The Deterioration of Nancy' (1896) Frederick Wedmore 196
'Pages from the Life of Lucy Newcome' (1896) Arthur Symons 206
'Mutability' (1896) Theodore Wratislaw 220
'The Idiots' (1896) Joseph Conrad 233
The Pageant
'Light' (1897) John Gray 253
'Yai and the Moon' (1897) Max Beerbohm 272
'Queen Ysabcau' (1897) Villiers de l'Isle-Adam 281
II Other Sources 299
'The Nightingale and the Rose' (1888) Oscar Wilde 299
'The Legend of Madame Krasinska' (1890) Vernon Lee 305
'The Sphinx without a Secret' (1891) Oscar Wilde 327
'The Ebony Frame' (1891) E. Nesbit 332
'The True Story of a Vampire' (1894) Eric Stenbock 342
'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid' (1894, 1895) H. G. Wells 350
'The Truce of God' (1896) Una Ash worth Taylor 357
'Original Sin' (1896) Vincent O'Sullivan 365
'Xélucha' (1896) M. P. Shiel 370
Arthur Symons 'The Death of Peter Waydelin' (1905) 379
Appendices
1 Parodies
'A Misunderstood Artist' (1894) H. G. Wells 392
'Incurable' (1896) Lionel Johnson 396
2 Background Sources 400
3 Further Reading: a Timeline 420
Notes 427
Select Bibliography 459
Index 462
