Home Chimes was a London magazine published between 1884 and 1894 byRichard Willoughby, and edited byF. W. Robinson.[1] Originally published as a weekly, it was published as a monthly from January 1886.
Early contributors wereJ. M. Barrie,[2] who contributed numerous articles, andJerome K. Jerome, a regular contributor, whoseThree Men in a Boat was serialised between 1888 and 1889, as wasE. Nesbit'sMan Size in Marble. Jerome had previously written a series of essays for the magazine which had been published in book form in 1886 asThe Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow.[3]
Other contributors includedCaroline Alice Elgar, wife ofEdward Elgar,[1]J. S. Fletcher andRichard Marsh, as well asSwinburne,Bret Harte,Coventry Patmore,[2]Robert Murray Gilchrist,Westland Marston and his sonPhilip Bourke Marston,Coulson Kernahan,William Sharp,[4]Theodore Watts-Dunton,Israel Zangwill andEden Phillpotts.[3]