Home Chimes was a London magazine published between 1884 and 1894 by Richard Willoughby, and edited by F. W. Robinson. [1] Originally published as a weekly, it was published as a monthly from January 1886.
Early contributors were J. M. Barrie, [2] who contributed numerous articles, and Jerome K. Jerome, a regular contributor, whose Three Men in a Boat was serialised between 1888 and 1889, as was E. Nesbit's "Man-Size in Marble". Jerome had previously written a series of essays for the magazine which had been published in book form in 1886 as The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow . [3]
Other contributors included Caroline Alice Elgar, wife of Edward Elgar, [1] J. S. Fletcher and Richard Marsh, as well as Swinburne, Bret Harte, Coventry Patmore, [2] Robert Murray Gilchrist, Westland Marston and his son Philip Bourke Marston, Coulson Kernahan, William Sharp, [4] Theodore Watts-Dunton, Israel Zangwill and Eden Phillpotts. [3]