The Boston Miscellany Explained

The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion
Frequency:	Monthly
Founded:	January 1, 1842
Finaldate:	February 1, 1843
Based:	Boston, Massachusetts
Editor:	Nathan Hale, Jr.
Editor2:	Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Language:	English
Oclc:	1536867

The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion was a monthly literary and fashion magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1842 to 1843.^[1] It also published book reviews and music.^[2]

The initial issue of The Boston Miscellany was published in January 1842, with Nathan Hale, Jr. (sone of the journalist Nathan Hale) as its editor. Henry Theodore Tuckerman served as editor in 1843.^[3] The magazine was published by Bradbury, Soden & Co. It ceased publication after the 14th issue in February 1843.

Contributors to the magazine included John Neal,^[4] Henry David Thoreau, Edward Everett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Everett Hale, James Russell Lowell, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Parker Willis. Sarah Hale, Nathan Hale's wife, translated tales from German into English that were published in the magazine.

References

• Frank Luther Mott (1930). A History of American Magazines, 1741–1850 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press) pp. 100–103.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Women's Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, 1733-1844. EbscoHost. June 16, 2019.
2. Book: The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion. 1842. AMS Press. en.
3. Tuckerman. Henry T.. Hale. Nathan. 1842–1843. The Boston miscellany of literature and fashion.. 3 v . Hathi Trust.
4. Richards . Irving T. . 1933 . The Life and Works of John Neal . PhD . Harvard University . 7588473 . 1021–1022.