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unusual facts about The Strand Magazine


The Strand Magazine

G.H. Savage became the column's editor, soon to be joined by William Thomas Williams (as W.T. Williams), who, in 1935 authored the best-known cross-figure puzzle of today.


C. E. Brock

Brock also contributed pieces to several magazines such as The Quiver, The Strand, and Pearsons.


see also

Arthur Twidle

On the death of Sidney Paget, who had illustrated Conan Dolyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand magazine, Twidle became one of Doyle's regular artists.

Greenhough

Herbert Greenhough Smith (1855–1935), the first editor of The Strand magazine

Haberdasher

George Newnes – founder of the Tit-Bits newspaper (1881) and the popular The Strand Magazine, of Sherlock Holmes fame