The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Vol. 33. April 1908 to September 1908.

[MAYO, Winifred].

$600.00

Item Number: 135904

London: The Idler Magazine, 1908.

First edition of Vol. 33 of The Idler, containing the first appearance of Winifred Mayo’s Prison Experiences of a Suffragette. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over pebbled boards, illustrated. A supporter of women’s suffrage, Winifred Mayo joined the Kensington branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907. Soon afterwards she was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for taking part in a demonstration outside the House of Commons. In good condition.

The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the author Robert Barr, who brought in the humorist Jerome K. Jerome as co-editor, and its contributors included many of the leading writers and illustrators of the time. Most of The Idler's contributors were popular and prolific writers of the time. Some of them, such as Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, and Ernest Bramah are still read today.