{{italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{short description|English literary periodical}} '''''Temple Bar''''' was a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th and very early 20th centuries (1860–1906). The complete title was '''''Temple Bar – A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers'''''. It was initially edited by [[George Augustus Sala]], and [[Arthur Ransome]] was the final editor before it folded, while he developed his literary career. It was also edited by [[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.victorianweb.org/authors/braddon/bio.html |title=Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915), the "Queen of Sensation" – Life and Works|author=Philip V. Allingham|publisher=Victorian Web |date=2007-05-25 |accessdate=2011-11-11}}</ref>
==History== ''Temple Bar'' was founded a year after the first publication of [[William Thackeray]]'s ''[[The Cornhill Magazine]]'', by one of [[Charles Dickens]]' followers, Sala, who promised his readers that the periodical would be "full of solid yet entertaining matter, that shall be interesting to Englishmen and Englishwomen…and that Filia-familias may read with as much gratification as Pater or Mater-familias", appealing to a solid, literate middle-class.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/ldn/2010/00000035/00000002/art00004 |title=The Paradox of a Periodical: ''Temple Bar'' Magazine under the Editorship of George Augustus Sala (1860–1863) |work=[[IngentaConnect]]}}</ref> A rather congratulary review of the arrival of the impending publication appeared in the ''New York Times'' in October 1860 saying that it promised "The name is a happy one; pregnant with good things and seasoned with the promise of Attic salt".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1860/11/09/news/affairs-england-new-london-magazine-reminiscences-temple-bar-british-legion.html | work=The New York Times | first=Our | last=Own | title=AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND.; A New London Magazine Reminiscences of Temple Bar The British Legion in Naples Murder Trial Miscellaneous News | date=9 November 1860}}</ref>
It sold for about one shilling, and was one of the leading literary magazines of the era. 553 issues were published – up to 1906, about one a month. It published work by writers such as [[Amy Levy]], [[Jane Austen]],{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} [[Wilkie Collins]], [[Charles Reade]], [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[Anthony Trollope]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[E. F. Benson]] and [[Jessie Fothergill]].<ref name=bassett>{{cite book|last1=Bassett|first1=Helen C. Black; edited by Troy J.|last2=Pope|first2=Catherine|title=Notable women authors of the day|date=2011|publisher=Victorian Secrets|location=Brighton|isbn=978-1906469207|page=191|edition=New|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1906469202|accessdate=13 October 2014}}</ref> Initially the magazine achieved a circulation of some 30,000 which eventually settled at around the 13,000 mark in the late 1860s. In 1868 ''[[Bentley's Miscellany|Bentley's Magazine]]'' was merged into it. By 1896 circulation had dropped to about 8,000. Arthur Ransome also started his career as publisher there.
It should not be confused with a [[bi-monthly]] published in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]] of the same name published in the first decade of the 21st century.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000500041 Temple Bar archive at HathiTrust]
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