The Mahogany Tree was a weeklyThe Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, ed. Lorna Sage, Cambridge University Press, 30 September 1999, page 9 literary magazine published from January until December 1892. The magazine was based in Boston.
Overview The magazine was started by Mildred Aldrich,Harvard University Library and it was supposedly "devoted solely to the 'fine arts'."D.M.R. Bentley, The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897, University of Toronto Press, 31 August 2003, page 214 According to a review in The Harvard Crimson its aim was to "give criticisms on books, pictures, music, and acting." It has since been described as "one of the first forums for decadent-aesthetic ideas in the United States."
Contributors comprised Philip Henry Savage, Ralph Adams Cram,D.M.R. Bentley, The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897, University of Toronto Press, 31 August 2003, page 334 Louise Imogen Guiney and F. Holland Day, amongst others. The magazine was the first to publish the work of Willa Cather.Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, University of Nebraska Press; Rev Ed edition, 1 November 1970, p. 578
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