ABSTRACT
Looking back from the thousandth, 25 February 1899, issue, James Mason, a frequent contributor to TGOP, recalled the day when he first heard about the new magazine over lunch with Charles Peters, who was ‘full of a scheme’ for a paper expected to ‘appeal to and cater for those sensible girls who are always in fashion and who hitherto had possessed no magazine of their own’. Peters’s confidence in the new venture was, as Mason remembered it, ‘infectious’.37
