The writer Netta Syrett, for example, was a friend of Beardsley's sister Mabel, while the Cambridge contemporaries Stanley Makower (1872–1911) and Oswald Sickert (1871–1923) came to Beardsley's attention through Oswald's elder brother, the artist Walter Sickert. Ties of friendship and personal connection drew in other contributors to the periodical. Lane meanwhile saw an opportunity both to promote authors already on the Bodley Head list (including Richard Le Gallienne and George Egerton ) and to woo others (such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, George Moore, and Pearl Craigie) away from rival publishing houses. Harland was eager to use his influence to establish relations with his own literary heroes-notably James, Edmund Gosse, and Richard Garnett-as well as to encourage young talent. Although the 22-year-old Beardsley envisaged the Yellow Book as a vehicle for self-consciously modern work that might be 'a little risqué', Harland and Lane had rather different personal agenda. The founding principles of the Yellow Book were that literature and art should be treated independently and given equal status, that mere topicality should be avoided, and that serialization should be eschewed in favour of independent literary works: short stories, critical essays, poems, and 'prose fancies'. Lane agreed to publish the new work and its first contributor-the author Henry James, of whom Harland was a great admirer-was commissioned later that day. On the following day they approached John Lane, co-founder of the London publishing house the Bodley Head. According to Harland the decision to go ahead with the periodical was taken with Beardsley on 1 January 1894 during discussions after lunch at Harland's flat at 144 Cromwell Road, London. The Yellow Book had its origins in discussions held during the summer of 1893, when Harland, together with his wife, Aline (1860–1939), spent a holiday at St Marguerite-sur-Mer, on the Normandy coast, with the painters Dugald MacColl, Charles Conder, and Alfred Thornton (the latter two becoming contributors to the periodical), as well as Beardsley, Beardsley's mother and sister, and others. He was joined and supported, as art editor, by the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, whom Harland had met while both men were being treated for respiratory illness by the London physician Edmund Symes-Thompson. The Yellow Book's editor and presiding spirit was the American-born writer Henry Harland, who had moved to London from Paris in 1889. Although the Yellow Book's reputation for daring, decadence, and self-conscious modernity is undeniable, its popular identification as a wholly or primarily scandalous publication is more open to question. 1894–1897), were the publisher, editors, writers, and artists responsible for the Yellow Book (1894–7), a literary and artistic quarterly that achieved-both at the time and subsequently-a reputation as a defining publication of the fin de siècle in Britain.
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