Lilliput was a small-format British monthly magazine of humour, short stories, photographs and the arts, founded in 1937 by the photojournalist Stefan Lorant.[1][2] The first issue came out in July and it was sold shortly after to Edward Hulton, when editorship was taken over by Tom Hopkinson in 1940: his assistant editor from 1941 to 1948 was Kaye Webb.[3] During the 1950s Lilliput was edited by Jack Hargreaves. It had a reputation for publishing what were, for the time, fairly daring photographs of female nudes.
 A December 1946 issue of Lilliput | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Pocket Publications |
| Founder | Stefan Lorant |
| Founded | 1937 |
| First issue | 1937 |
| Final issue | 1960 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
Contributors included H. E. Bates, Gordon Beckles, Sir Max Beerbohm, James Boswell, Nigel Balchin (author), Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Patrick Campbell, Barbara Comyns, C.E.M. Joad, Aleister Crowley, Robert Doisneau, Dominick Elwes, Ronald Ferns, C. S. Forester, John Glashan, Zoltán Glass, Sydney Jacobson, Robert Graves, Michael Heath, Constant Lambert, Ergy Landau, Nancy Mitford, Stephen Potter, V. S. Pritchett, E. Arnot Robertson, Murray Sayle, Ronald Searle, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, and Ylla.
The first 147 issues (until late 1949) had covers illustrated by Walter Trier[2] with each design depicting a man, a woman, and a small Scottish Terrier dog in various situations and periods.
In August 1960 Lilliput was absorbed into Men Only (which only later became pornographic).
Lilliput Review, an American periodical that started in 1989, is unrelated.
References
edit- ^ Hallett, Michael. Stefan Lorant: godfather of photojournalism. Scarecrow Press, 2006 ISBN 0810856824 (p. 61)
- ^ a b An air raid siren for the Left, New Criterion, 1 September 2005.
- ^ Trotman, Felicity (2015) [2004]. "Webb [married names Brierley, Hunter, Searle], Kathleen (Kaye)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60767. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Further reading
edit- The Lilliput Annual (1937- )
- Bennett, Richard, ed. The Bedside Lilliput. London: Hulton, 1950. Content from 1937–49
- Webb, Kaye, ed. Lilliput Goes to War. London: Hutchinson, 1985
- Lilliput: Walter Trier's World. Tokyo: Pie, 2004. ISBN 4-89444-367-8 Presents 99 of Trier's covers for Lilliput; text in both Japanese and English
- Harte, Chris, A History and Bibliography of Lilliput, Sports History Publishing, 2024 - detailed history of the magazine, black and white reproductions of its covers, and a summary of the contents of each issue, plus information the magazine's illustrators, officers, etc.
External links
edit- Lilliput Magazine - tribute website
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