Another long history magazine is Vanity Fair. This article is about defunct magazines bearing the name Vanity Fair. For the modern magazine of the same name, see Vanity Fair (magazine).Vanity Fair has been the title of at least five magazines, including an 1859–1863 American publication, an 1868–1914 British publication, an unrelated 1902-1904 New York magazine, and a 1913–1936 American publication edited by Condé Nast, which was revived in 1983.Vanity Fair was notably a fictitious place ruled by Beelzebub, in the book Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Later use of the name was influenced by the well-known 1847-1848 novel of the same name by William Makepeace Thackeray.
