Pearson’s Magazine

Pearson’s Magazine was a monthly publication launched in Britain in 1896. Three years later, a US version became available as well.

Issues of Pearson’s magazine typically contained a mix of political discussion pieces and speculative fiction. Although it was popular in its day, the magazine was discontinued less than 50 years after its inception. The final issue was published in November 1939.

Pearsons Magazine published fiction by many famous authors including E. F. Benson and H. G. Wells. Although issues often featured short stories such as Benson’s Thursday Evenings, and The China Bowl it also often published serialized stories such as C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis.

In 1897, the British version was the first magazine to print Well’s story The War of the Worlds. The story was spread over nine issues, between April and December. However, this was not the case in the US, where Well’s The War of the Worlds first appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Some of the speculative fiction that was published in Pearson’s Magazine is available to read online, elsewhere on this site.