Pearson's Weekly

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.

Pearson's Weekly

Editor	C. Arthur Pearson
Frequency	Weekly
Publisher	C. Arthur Pearson Ltd
First issue	1890
Final issue	1939
Company	C. Arthur Pearson Ltd
Country	UK
Language	English

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".^[1]

Notable fiction published

• George Griffith, The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893)
• George Griffith, The Syren of the Skies (1894)
• H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (1897)
• M. P. Shiel, Contraband of War (1898)
• Sax Rohmer, The Mysterious Mummy (1903)
• Rupert Croft-Cooke, "The Legacy" (1932)
• William Edward Vickers, The Rubber Truncheon (1934)
• Ethel Lina White, "Honey" (1935)

See also

• Pearson's Magazine