Edwin John Brett (1828–1895) was a Victorian editor and publisher of boys' magazines, romantic fiction and "penny dreadfuls" who pioneered the weekly format of serialised and sensational fiction.
Vault of Edwin John Brett in the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery
George William MacArthur Reynolds was a British fiction writer and journalist.
Portrait of Reynolds on the first page of the first issue of Reynolds's Miscellany, November 1846, price one penny. The text of the first installment of Wagner the Wehr-Wolf begins at the bottom of the page.
An illustration from The Mysteries of London