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.

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".Kevin Williams, Read All About It! A History of the British Newspaper (London: Routledge, 2009), p. 130

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

References

Further reading

George Locke, Pearson's Weekly: A Checklist of Fiction, 1890–1939 (Ferret Fantasy, 1990)

External links Pearson's Weekly at the Internet Archive Pearson's Weekly at the British Newspaper Archive