The Sketch
The Sketchwas a British illustrated weekly journal. It ran for 2,989 issues between 1 February 1893[1]and 17 June 1959. It was published by theIllustrated London News Companyand was primarily a society magazine with regular features onroyalty,aristocracyandhigh society,as well astheatre,cinemaandthe arts.It had a high photographic content with many studies ofsociety ladiesand their children as well as regular layouts ofpoint to point racingmeetings and similar events.
Clement ShorterandWilliam IngramstartedThe Sketchin 1893.[2]Shorter was the first editor, from 1893 to 1900, succeeded byJohn Latey(until his death in 1902) and thenKeble Howard.[3]Bruce Ingramwas editor from 1905 to 1946.
The magazine is remembered for first publishing the illustrations ofBonzo the dogbyGeorge E. Studdy(from 1921). It featured series of short stories within its pages, one per issue, with authors such asWalter de la MareandAlgernon Blackwood.Under the editorship of Bruce Ingram, it was also the first magazine to publish short stories byAgatha Christie,starting with "The Affair at the Victory Ball"in issue 1571 on 7 March 1923. Altogether, Christie wrote 49 stories forThe Sketchbetween 1923 and 1924 (just under a third of her total output of short stories) which were later collected into some or all of the contents of the volumesPoirot Investigates(1924),The Big Four(1927),Partners in Crime(1929),Poirot's Early Cases(1974), andWhile the Light Lasts and Other Stories(1997). Christie dedicated the 1953 novelA Pocket Full of Ryeto Ingram.
The Sketchprinted photographs byHoward Coster,[4]and illustrations byH. M. Bateman,Max Beerbohm,Edmund Blampied,Percy Venner Bradshaw(1877–1965),Thomas Arthur Browne,Hilda Cowham,Annie Fish,John Hargrave,John Hassall,Phil May,Bernard Partridge,Melton Prior,W. Heath Robinson,Josep Segrelles,Sidney Sime,Olive Snell,Bert Thomas,and Thomas Downey.
Writers includedCarleton Allen,Lucie Armstrong,Nora Hopper,William Robertson NicollandJohn Courtenay Trewin.[3]Keble Howard,editor until 1905, continued to contribute a column titledMotley Notesuntil two-weeks prior to his death, his final piece appearing on 14 March 1928.[5]
TheBritish Libraryholds a complete run ofThe Sketch.[6]
References
[edit]- ^"Art and Architecture".Cardiff University.Retrieved6 December2016.
- ^Shorter's entry in theOxford Dictionary of National Biographystates 1892.
- ^abPhilip Waller,Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918,pp. 351–2
- ^"Howard Coster",The National Portrait Gallery, retrieved 11 February 2013
- ^The Sketch.Wednesday 14 March 1928, pp 39, 40. An announcement that Howard was unable to contribute appeared inThe Sketchof 21 and 28 March 1928
- ^"British Library Newspaper Collections".British Library.Retrieved24 January2015.
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