The National Observer was a British newspaper published from 1888 to 1897. It began as the Scots Observer and was renamed when it moved from
Edinburgh to
London in 1889.[1] It was considered "
conservative in its political outlook" and "liberal in its literary taste".[1]
Writers of fiction published in The National Observer include Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, James Barrie, William Butler Yeats, and Rudyard Kipling.[1]
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