Ainslee's Magazine
Ainslee's Magazine was an American literary periodical published from 1897 to December 1926. It was originally published as a humor magazine called The Yellow Kid, based on the popular comic strip character. It was renamed Ainslee's the following year.
The magazine's publishers were Howard, Ainslee & Co., a division of the Street & Smith publishing house in New York City.
Contributors
Among those who contributed essays, short stories, or poetry to Ainslee's:- Stephen Crane
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Theodore Dreiser
- Frances Gaither
- Maud Hart Lovelace
- Bret Harte
- O. Henry
- Anthony Hope
- Jack London
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Constance Lindsay Skinner
- Albert Payson Terhune
- Stanley J. Weyman
- P. G. Wodehouse
- I. A. R. Wylie
Ainslee's was published until December 1926, after which it was merged into Far West Illustrated, a western-fiction magazine.
In 1934, Street & Smith revived Ainslee's Magazine as a "sophisticated love-story monthly" edited by Daisy Bacon. In 1936, the title changed to Ainslee’s Smart Love Stories, then finally Smart Love Stories. It was discontinued in 1938.
Publication details
Ainslee's switched from a 10¢ cover price to 15¢ with the October 1902 issue, allegedly the first magazine with a 15¢ price.The magazine switched from slick to pulp paper with the February 1914 issue.