Monthly Magazine

The Monthly Magazine (1796–1843) of London^[1]^[2] began publication in February 1796.

Contributors

Richard Phillips was the publisher and a contributor on political issues. The editor for the first ten years was a literary jack-of-all-trades, Dr John Aikin.^[3] Other contributors included William Blake,^[4] Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Dyer, Henry Neele, Charles Lamb,^[3] and James Hogg.^[5] The magazine also published the earliest fiction by Charles Dickens, the first of what would become Sketches by Boz.^[6]

The circulation of the magazine in early 1830s was about 600.^[6] From 1839 the magazine was for two years edited by Francis Foster Barham and John Abraham Heraud. Its content in that period has been described by a recent American analyst as "popularizations of post-Kantian philosophy, esoteric mystical commentary, literary effusions, and idealistic calls for child-centered education and communitarian socialism."^[7]

References

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^ ^a ^b Arthur Sherbo. From the "Monthly Magazine, and British Register": Notes on Milton, Pope, Boyce, Johnson, Sterne, Hawkesworth, and Prior. Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 43 (1990).
^ Archibald George Blomefield Russell. "The engravings of William Blake". Houghton Mifflin, 1912.
^ Hunter, Adrian (ed.) (2020), James Hogg: Contributions to English, Irish and American Periodicals, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 237 - 240, ISBN 9780748695980
^ ^a ^b Christies Retrieved 9 August 2018.
^ Charles Capper Associate Professor of History Boston University (7 September 1994). Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life Volume I: The Private Years. Oxford University Press. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-19-976234-7. Retrieved 2 April 2013.

Monthly Magazine, or, British register. London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1796 onwards.
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