Articles and a serial novel from Tit-Bits (UK)

 

Items with annotations are flagged with the symbol ✎ below.

 

  ✎ Men Who Have Missed Their Own Weddings (article) — November 24, 1900

  ✎ Single-Day Marriages (article) — March 8, 1902

New in November 2014: We present the full-length serialization of the first of Wodehouse’s transatlantic-romance novels. A much shorter and very different form of the tale was originally published as The Gem Collector in the American magazine Ainslee’s. The full-length novel as printed in the USA under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy has long been available online, though nearly always in somewhat unreliable transcriptions. Slightly revised and expanded for the British market, it first appeared in this Tit-Bits serialization with a pluralized title, then in very similar form appeared in hardback as A Gentleman of Leisure in November 1910, published by Alston Rivers. Later British releases under that title by Wodehouse’s regular publishers were very slightly abridged.

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 01 — June 11, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 02 — June 18, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 03 — June 25, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 04 — July 2, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 05 — July 9, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 06 — July 16, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 07 — July 23, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 08 — July 30, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 09 — August 6, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 10 — August 13, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 11 — August 20, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 12 — August 27, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 13 — September 3, 1910

  ✎ The Intrusions of Jimmy - Part 14 — September 10, 1910

 

 

Tit-Bits, UK

Tit-Bits from all the interesting Books, Periodicals, and Newspapers of the World, to give its full title, was a penny weekly magazine founded by George Newnes (best known for publishing The Strand Magazine) in 1881. It began, as its title implies, as a digest of entertaining extracts from a wide variety of publications. (Right-click on the image above and select "View image" or similar command to expand the first front cover to readable size.) Original short stories and novel-length fiction were soon added to the mix, featuring authors from H. Rider Haggard to Isaac Asimov.

In the middle twentieth century it began to take on a slightly salacious reputation, and was one of the first publications to feature lightly-clad young women on the front cover. It lost the hyphen in its title in 1973 and ceased publication in 1984.

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