The Sphere (newspaper)

The first issue came out at the height of the Boer War and was a product of that conflict and the public appetite for images.

Those featured in The Sphere were by renowned artists including W. G. Whitaker and Montague Dawson.

Other illustrators included Sidney Paget, Henry Matthew Brock, Fortunino Matania, Ernest Prater, Edmund Blampied, Victor Coverley-Price and Claude Grahame Muncaster (1903–1974); photographers included Christina Broom (1862–1939); and writers included Bryher, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, and Michael Wolff,[2] and Balkans war heroine Dr Caroline Matthews.

[3] Thomas Hardy's short story A Changed Man was first published in The Sphere, in two instalments in the 21 and 28 April 1900 editions.

In the film Three Faces East (1930), set in England during WWI, Frances Hawtree (Constance Bennett) peruses a copy of The Sphere.