Home Chimes


Home Chimes was a London magazine published between 1884 and 1894 by Richard [Willoughby (novelist)|Richard Willoughby], and edited by F. W. Robinson. Originally published as a weekly, it was published as a monthly from January 1886.
Early contributors were J. M. Barrie, who contributed numerous articles, and Jerome K. Jerome, a regular contributor, whose Three [Men in a Boat] was serialised between 1888 and 1889, as was E. Nesbit's "Man-Size in Marble". Jerome had previously written a series of essays for the magazine which had been published in book form in 1886 as The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow.
Other contributors included Caroline [Alice Elgar], wife of Edward Elgar, J. S. Fletcher and Richard Marsh, as well as Swinburne, Bret Harte, Coventry Patmore, Robert Murray Gilchrist, Westland Marston and his son Philip [Bourke Marston], Coulson Kernahan, William Sharp, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Israel Zangwill and Eden Phillpotts.