Temple Bar was a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th and very early 20th centuries (1860–1906).
The complete title was Temple Bar – A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers.
It was initially edited by George Augustus Sala, and Arthur Ransome was the final editor before it folded, while he developed his literary career.
[1] Temple Bar was founded a year after the first publication of William Thackeray's The Cornhill Magazine, by one of Charles Dickens' followers, Sala, who promised his readers that the periodical would be "full of solid yet entertaining matter, that shall be interesting to Englishmen and Englishwomen…and that Filia-familias may read with as much gratification as Pater or Mater-familias", appealing to a solid, literate middle-class.
It published work by writers such as Amy Levy, Jane Austen,[citation needed] Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. F. Benson and Jessie Fothergill.