Fun (magazine)
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Fun was a Victorian weekly humorous magazine, first published on 21 September 1861 in competition with Punch.
Later front page, 1886
T. W. Robertson
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Thomas William Robertson was an English dramatist and stage director known for his development of naturalism in British theatre.
Fun (magazine)
…September 1861 in competition with Punch. The magazine's first editors were H. J. Byron and Tom Hood. They had many well-known contributors, including Tom Robertson, Ambrose Bierce, G. R. Sims and Clement Scott but the most important contributor to its success in its first decade was W. S. Gilbert, whose Bab Ballads…
Robertson, 1860s
Friends and associates of Robertson: clockwise from top left, F. C. Burnand, H. J. Byron, W. S. Gilbert and Tom Hood
John Hare in Robertson's Ours, 1866
Marie Wilton as Polly Eccles in Robertson's Caste