The Gentlewoman

The Gentlewoman was a weekly illustrated paper for women founded in 1890 and published in London.

For its first thirty-six years its full title was The Gentlewoman: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Gentlewomen. In 1926 it was briefly renamed Gentlewoman and Modern Life, and ceased publication later the same year, to be merged with Eve.

Publishing its first issue on 12 July 1890,The Gentlewoman soon established a reputation for good writing. On 15 December 1891 The Times reported that its Christmas number had

...stories, all illustrated in colours, by Mr Farjeon, Mr Grant Allen, Mr Doyle, Lord Brabourne, Miss Florence Warden, Mrs Campbell Praed, Mr Henry Herman, and Mr A. J. Pask, and the beginning of a novel, produced under exceptional conditions, "The Fate of Fenella".

This unusual "consecutive novel", in which each chapter was written by a different author, was serialized between December 1891 and April 1892.The Gentlewoman's editor, Joseph Snell Wood, devised the idea and arranged for male and female writers to alternate in developing the narrative. Those he secured for the project included Bram Stoker, Frances Trollope, Florence Marryat, Mrs Hungerford, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mrs Edward Kennard. Stoker's chapter, called "Lord Castleton Explains", appeared in January 1892.The Times commented at the outset that "The result of so peculiar an experiment will be awaited with some curiosity." The complete work was published as a three volume novel by Hutchinson of London in May 1892, and a review of it noted the absence of a controlling mind.

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