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The Kensington: A Magazine of Art, Literature and the Drama


London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co., 1901

The period covered by Arts:Search is 1901. Available now.

Monthly. Short-lived (only 7 issues published, March-September 1901) magazine of art, music and literature. Edited by Mrs. Steuart Erskine [Beatrice Erskine] and R.J. Richardson. Contains articles on the present position of French Impressionism; the Guild of Women Binders; the International Art Exhibition in Venice; contemporary American painters; theatre costume design; the history of art exhibitions in Rome; contemporary Scandinavian art; the lyric poetry of Robert Bridges; the operas of Handel; the work of Charles Shannon; and sculptors of the Italian Revival. Among writers who contributed articles to The Kensington were Christopher St. John [Christabel Marshall], Ailsa Craig, Salvatori Cortesi, Harriet L. Childe- Pemberton, and Selwyn Brinton