The Journal is edited by Brian Jones.
Vol. 1, No. 1: Spring 1985
"Who died for the Love of
a Lady?" (Introduction by Brian Jones to the following two articles), p4
"Comedy or Tragedy in the Ending?" by Michael Walters (re the ending of The
Yeomen of the Guard), pp5-8
"The Evidence for Thorne" by Gerald Glynn
(Did Lytton or Thorne "invent" Point's death?), pp9-15
"Gilbert's Last
Libretto" by Derrick McClure (discussing Fallen Fairies), pp16-19
"W.S. Gilbert on the Bench" by Andrew Goodman, pp20-22
"The Sword that
Never Fell" by Brian Jones (debunking a Mikado myth), pp22-25
"The
Dramatic Works of W.S. Gilbert" by Philip W. Plumb, pp26-31
Facsimiles of
Gilbert doodles, p32
Vol. 1, No. 2: Autumn 1985
"The Musical Gilbert, Without
Sullivan" by Jonathan Strong, pp36-39
"Der Vampyr and Gilbert" by
Michael Walters, pp40-41
Obituary: Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, D.B.E. by
Paul Seeley, pp42-44
"Brantinghame Hall: 1. A Night of Melodrama" by
Gerald Glynn, pp45-49
Readers' Letters, pp50-53
Review by Brian Jones:
The Savoyards on Record by John Wolfson, pp54-57
"The Bab Ballads: A
Publishing Account" by Philip W. Plumb, pp58-64
Vol. 1, No. 3: Spring 1986
"Gilbert's Contributions to
Periodicals: 1. London Society" by Philip W. Plumb, pp68-69
Facsimile of Gilbert's London Society review "The Christmas
Entertainments" (with Bab drawings), pp70-77
"Brantinghame Hall: 2.
The Mornings After" by Gerald Glynn, pp78-83
"Gilbert's Favourite 'Moment'"
by Brian Jones (what Gilbert nominated the finest dramatic situation he knew),
pp84-86
"Henry Bracy, the 'Extra' Ida Tenor" by Michael Walters,
pp87-91
Reviews:
Tit-Willow; or Notes and Jottings on Gilbert
& Sullivan Operas by Guy H. Walmisley and Claude A. Walmisley, p91
Gilbert and Sullivan: The Creative Conflict by David Eden (reviewed by
Philip W. Plumb), pp92-93
Sing With Sullivan compiled by Terence
Rees and Roderick Spencer, p94
Vol. 1, No. 4: Autumn 1986
"Gilbert's Contributions to
Periodicals: 2. Routledge's Christmas Annual" by Philip W. Plumb
(bibliographical article), p100
Facsimile of Gilbert's story in drawings
"The Converted Clown", pp101-103
"Somebody's Birthday?" by Victor Golding
(short account of the Gilbert 150th Birthday Symposium in Boston, Mass., USA),
p104
"The W.S. Gilbert Papers in the British Library" by Frederic
Woodbridge Wilson, pp105-119
"The Ruddi Rosebud" by Michael Walters
(discussion of The Rosebud of Stingingnettle Farm by H.J. Byron and its
influence on Ruddigore, followed by the text of this short skit),
pp120-124
Review by Paul Seeley: The British Musical Theatre by Kurt
Ganzl, pp125-126
Facsimiles of Gilbert's Fun cartoons "Our Own
Correspondent at the Guildford Fight" and "Wasted", pp127-128
Vol. 1 No. 5: 1987/8
"New D'Oyly Carte Opera Company" by
Paul Seeley (review of Iolanthe and The Yeomen of the Guard),
pp132-133
Obituary of Albert Truelove by Brian Jones, pp134-135
Readers' Letters, pp136-137
"Louisa May Alcott's Pinafore
Connection" by Harold Kanthor, pp138-142
"Archetypal Eagles, Operatic
Sparrows" by K.V. Bailey (reprinted from the SF magazine Foundation),
pp143-158
Facsimile of Gilbert cartoon "A 'Wild Goose' Case", p159
Vol. 1 No. 6: 1990 NO LONGER
AVAILABLE
"Gilbert and Pinero: Two Flights of Fancy" by George
Rowell (comparing Gilbert's Foggerty's Fairy with Pinero's The
Magistrate), pp164-168
Review: Sweethearts by Vic Golding,
p169
"Ko-Ko's Toe" by Brian Jones (investigating the origins of a famous
piece of Mikado "business"), pp170-174
Reader's Letter, p175
Obituary: Elsie Griffin, pp176-177
"'I Copied All the Letters in a Big,
Round Hand': Indexing W.S. Gilbert" by Geoffrey Dixon (reprinted from The
Indexer), pp178-182
The Gilbert and Sullivan Concordance by
Geoffrey Dixon, reviewed by Philip W. Plumb, p183
"Location and Law: A
Substructure of Gilbert Plots" by Peter Joslin, pp184-187
"Gilbert, Grundy
and the Guid Scots Tongue" by Derrick McClure (comparing the "stage Scots" in
Engaged and Haddon Hall), pp188-190
Facsimile of an
original-production programme of Foggerty's Fairy, p192
Vol. 1 No. 7: 1993 NO LONGER
AVAILABLE
"Gilbert the Brechtian" by Andrew Crowther (comparing
Tom Cobb with Mann ist Mann), pp196-204
Readers' Letters,
pp204-207
"Patrick W. Halton, 'A Very Able Conductor'" by Brian Jones,
pp208-218
"A Tale of Cock and Bull" by Kenneth M. Goldstein (probing the
origin of the phrase), pp219-220
Obituary: E.W. (Ted) Chapman by Philip W.
Plumb, p221
"Is Gilbert Dead? 1903" (1903 verse by "R.L.B." about Gilbert),
p222
Facsimiles of Gilbert cartoons "Our Pictorial Centuple
Acrostico-Charadical Puzzle" and "Another Way of Looking At It", pp223-224
Vol. 1 No. 8: 1994
"The Happy Land: Its True and
Remarkable History" by Terence Rees, pp228-237
"Gilbert and the Censors:
The Happy Land Conspiracy" by Philip Plumb, pp238-240
"W.S.G. As
Others Saw Him" (reminiscences by Rutland Barrington, Nellie Stewart,
F.Anstey), pp241-246
"The Fairy in the Drawing Room" by Andrew Crowther
(discussing Foggerty's Fairy), pp247-251
Readers' letters,
pp252-253
Vol. 1 No. 9: Summer 1997
"Matters of Life and Death" by Andrew Crowther (themes of death and
resurrection), pp260-264
"Beyond the Croaking Chorus: Gilbert's Classical
Sources" by Elinor S. Wright, pp265-270
Obituary: "Meston Reid--Not Just a
Singer" by Betty Moat, pp271-273
"The Sad Tale of a Translation" by Tony
Obrist, pp274-275
"W.S.G. As Others Saw Him: Mary Anderson (Madame de
Navarro)", pp276-277
"Licensed or Unlicensed Gags?" by George Low, p278,
p281
"The Little-Known Writings of the Duke of Plaza Toro" by Michael
Walters (the plays of Frank Wyatt), pp279-280
Book Reviews: W.S.
Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and his Theatre by Jane W. Stedman, The
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 1875-1982 by Tony Joseph (reviewed by Philip W.
Plumb)
Readers' letters, pp283-287
Facsimile of Gilbert cartoon "All
Levee Swells--All 'Eavy Swells"
Vol. 1 No. 10: Spring 1999
"Dr. William Gilbert: Like Father,
Like Son?" by Philip W. Plumb, pp292-302
"Jessie Bond--Glimpses Anew" by
Paul Ernhill, pp302-311
"Two Fetches" by Jessie Bond, pp311-314
"Gilbert Viewed from the Punch Table" (reminiscences by Harry Furniss),
pp315-317
"W.S.G. As Others Saw Him: James M. Glover", pp317-318
Facsimiles of Gilbert cartoons "The History of the Sensation Drama that Jack
Wrote" and "Out With the Militia", pp319-320
Vol. 2 No. 11: Autumn 2000 NO LONGER
AVAILABLE
"The Land Where Contradictions Meet: HMS
Pinafore and the Creation of the Savoy Formula" by Andrew Crowther,
pp324-332
"Croquet" by W.S. Gilbert (with Bab drawings), pp332-339
photograph of a croquet party, with Gilbert's sisters Florence and Maude,
pp336-337
"The Style of Thing Precisely" by David Duffey (Gilbert's use, or
not, of metaphor), pp340-346
"Topsy-Turvy" (production notes, cast list),
pp346-352
Vol. 2 No. 12: Spring 2001
"Confessions of a Lapsed Fanatic"
by Max Keith Sutton, pp356-362
"The Dream of Pygmalion" by Andrew Crowther,
pp362-370
"An Appeal to the Press" by W.S. Gilbert, pp371-373
Readers'
letters, pp373-374
"aka Roydon Fleming: W.S. Gilbert in Played Out
1866" by Brian Jones (analysing a fictional portrayal of Gilbert by Annie
Thomas), pp375-381
Vol. 2 No. 13: Autumn 2002
"Mr Gilbert": Chapter 9 of
Worlds Away (1964) by Pamela Maude (reprint of personal reminiscences of
WSG), pp388-399
"Fallen Fairies" by Scott Farrell, pp400-406 (article and
selection from original reviews)
"An Exceedingly Kind and Generous
Aristophanes", reprint of an article/interview from The Sketch of 13
June 1900, pp406-410
"W.S. Gilbert in the Magazines" by Andrew Crowther
(list of Gilbert's contributions to magazines, journals and papers),
pp410-412
"Gilbert's Drawing-Room Ballads" by Andrew Crowther,
pp412-414
News items concerning Fallen Fairies and Engaged,
p415
Vol. 2 No. 14: Winter 2003
"WS Gilbert's Sleepwalking"
by Terence Rees (a new Gilbert discovery), pp420-425
"The Sons of Patrick
Halton at the Savoy" (note about the conductor Patrick Halton and his sons, who
also worked for the D'Oyly Carte), p425
"A Tribute to Jane W. Stedman: 8
June 1926 - 6 March 2003" by Ralph MacPhail, Jr., pp426-427
"The Other
Gilbert" by Andrew Crowther (essay concerning Gilbert's reputation) ,
pp428-437
"Recent Gilbert Events in the UK", pp437-438
"The Barrister's
Wig" by William Gilbert (reprint of satirical article by Gilbert Senior),
pp438-447
Vol. 2 No. 15: Summer 2004
"In Aid--In Aid of a Deserving
Charity..." by David Stone (introducing his discovery of a new Gilbert short
story), pp452-454
"Lady Mildred's Little Escapade" by W.S. Gilbert (the
rediscovered short story), pp454-465
"Producing Gilbert's Plays" by David
Fidler, pp465-472
"Restoring Gilbert's Grave at Stanmore",
p472
"Engaged in New York and London" (reviews by David Stone and
Andrew Crowther), pp473-475
"Recent Gilbert Events, 2004", p476
"Emily
and Augusta" by W.S. Gilbert (cartoon story), pp477-479
Vol. 2 No. 16: Winter 2004
"The Beginnings of Bab? 1854
drawings discovered" by Brian Jones (reporting on the discovery by Sydney and
Lucy Charendoff of an album of early Gilbert cartoons), pp484-195
"Gilbert,
the Snake in the Garden of Eden" by Philip Plumb (review of David Eden's
W.S. Gilbert: Appearance and Reality), pp496-499
"The Yarn of Dudley
and Stephens" by David Fidler (the historical foundation of "The Yarn of the
'Nancy Bell'"), pp500-508
"The Brigands" by Andrew Crowther (review
of new CD of Gilbert's translation of the Offenbach operetta),
pp508-509
"Engaged by W.S. Gilbert" by J. Derrick McClure
(review of Engaged at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland),
pp510-511
"Recent Gilbert Events", pp511-512
Vol. 2 No. 17: Summer 2005
"Gilbert and the Sensation Novel"
by Andrew Crowther (essay about the influence of Victorian sensation fiction on
WSG), pp516-525
"A newly discovered WSG letter" by Terence Crolley
(reporting on a letter from 1865 shedding new light on WSG's farce A
Colossal Idea), pp526-528
"A Colossal Idea and the Young
Gilbert's Early Plays" by David Stone (commenting on the newly discovered
letter), pp529-530
"An Old Score--A New Edition" (brief paragraph
advertising David Trutt's limited edition of the Gilbert play An Old
Score), p530
"Basingstoke: Teeming with Hidden Meaning" by Philip Plumb
(on the meaning of Basingstoke), pp531-535
"1854 Album--Second Thoughts" by
Brian Jones (following on from "The Beginnings of Bab?" in Issue 16),
pp536-540
"New Light on Lytton's Life and Work" (advertising Brian Jones's
biography of Sir Henry Lytton), p541
"Gilbert Events", pp542-543
"The
Recent Hideous Case of Hydrophobia" by WSG, p544
Vol. 2 No. 18: Winter 2005
"The Late Sir W.S. Gilbert's Pets"
by Nancy McIntosh (reprinted from Country Life, 3 June 1911),
pp548-556
"Gilbert at King's College London, 1853-1857" by Brian Jones,
pp557-562
"Hesketh Pearson: Telling Tales about Gilbert" by Andrew Crowther
(the life of Gilbert's most colourful biographer), pp563-572
"Lytton:
Gilbert and Sullivan's Jester" by Philip W. Plumb (review of Brian Jones's new
book), pp572-574
"Recent Gilbert Events", p575
"Index to Sullivan's
Diaries", notice of Geoffrey Dixon's new work.
Vol. 2 No. 19: Summer 2006
"Hungarian Fantasies: Sifting Fact
from Fiction about Ilka Palmay" by Paul Seeley, pp580-585
"W.S. Gilbert in
Kensington" by Brian Jones, pp586-592.
"His Excellency--"Another
Mikado"? by Terry Hawes, pp593-597.
Readers' emails, p597.
"Virtue
Triumphant?" by Andrew Crowther (how Gilbert handled endings),
pp598-607.
Gilbert Events, p607.
Vol. 2 No. 20: Winter 2006
"A Tribute to Philip Plumb" by
Brian Jones & Andrew Crowther, pp612-614.
"The Genesis of
Ruddigore" by Philip Plumb, pp615-619.
"Hungarian Fantasies 2:
Sifting Fact from Fiction about Ilka Palmay" by Paul Seeley,
pp620-632.
"Jessie Bond as Donald Wolfit's Mentor" by Brian Jones,
pp633-634.
"Gilbert Times Four" by Andrew Crowther (review of 4 short
Gilbert plays at Buxton), pp635-638.
Recent Gilbert Events, p639.