Pearson's Weekly

{{Short description|British weekly periodical}}

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Pearson's Weekly was a British weekly periodical founded in London in 1890 by Arthur Pearson, who had previously worked on Tit-Bits for George Newnes.

The first issue was well advertised and sold a quarter of a million copies. The paper's stated aim was "To Interest, to Elevate and to Amuse".Kevin Williams, Read All About It! A History of the British Newspaper (London: Routledge, 2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=w2t_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA130 p. 130]

Notable fiction published

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Further reading

  • {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2022 |title=Pearson's Weekly |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pearsons_weekly |access-date=2023-12-30 |edition=4th |author1-last=Ashley |author1-first=Mike |author1-link=Mike Ashley (writer) |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-first=David |editor2-link=David Langford |editor3-last=Sleight |editor3-first=Graham |editor3-link=Graham Sleight |ref=none}}
  • George Locke, Pearson's Weekly: A Checklist of Fiction, 1890–1939 (Ferret Fantasy, 1990)