← Back

W. E. Henley

Henley, William Ernest

August 23, 1849 – July 11, 1903 (aged 53)

Birth place: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK

3 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
January 1896 Editor The New Review - 1896 The New Review, January 1896
May 1897 Editor The New Review - 1897 The New Review, May 1897
December 1929 852 Poem A King in Babylon Weird Tales, December 1929


Henley edited several British literary periodicals, including The National Observer from 1889 to 1893 and later The New Review (below). Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, James Barrie, William Butler Yeats, and Rudyard Kipling [and Henley a good friend of Stevenson; inspired Long John Silver]
Wikipedia bartleby.com lccn.loc.gov britannica.com