The European Magazine Explained

European Magazine
Editor:	1782: James Perry 1782–1807: Isaac Reed 1807–c.1820: Stephen Jones c.1820–?: Alfred Beauchamp
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Frequency:	Monthly
Circulation:	3,250 (late 1700s)
Founder:	James Perry
Country:	United Kingdom
Based:	London
Language:	English

The European Magazine (sometimes referred to as European Magazine) was a monthly magazine published in London. Eighty-nine semi-annual volumes were published from 1782 until 1826. It was launched as the European Magazine, and London Review in January 1782, promising to offer "the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Etiquette, and Amusements of the Age." It was in direct competition with The Gentleman's Magazine, and in 1826 was absorbed into the Monthly Magazine.^[1]

Soon after launching the European Magazine, its founding editor, James Perry, passed proprietorship to the Shakespearean scholar Isaac Reed and his partners John Sewell and Daniel Braithwaite, who guided the magazine during its first two decades.

The articles and other contributions in the magazine appeared over initials or pseudonyms and have largely remained anonymous.^[2] Scholars believe that the contributions include the first published poem by William Wordsworth (1787)^{[3] [4]} and the earliest known printing of "O Sanctissima", the popular Sicilian Mariners Hymn (1792).^{[5] [6]}

Further reading

• Helene E. Roberts's short overview of the European Magazine in Alvin Sullivan, ed., British Literary Magazines: The Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson, 1698–1788 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983), pp. 106–112.

External links

• The European Magazine, and London Review, vols. 1–86, hathitrust.org

Notes and References

1. Book: Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland . Laurel . Brake . Marysa . Demoor . Academia Press . 2009 . 422. 9789038213408 .
2. Web site: Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782–1826 . Emily Lorraine . de Montluzin . University of Virginia.
3. Sonnet, on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress . William [Axiologus] . Wordsworth . William Wordsworth . European Magazine . 11 . 3 . March 1787 . 202.
4. Book: Reed, Mark L. . Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Early Years 1770–1799 . registration . 1967 . 71 . a sonnet printed in the European Magazine... signed Axiologus.
5. Drossiana. Number XXXVIII. The Sicilian Mariner's Hymn to the Virgin . William . Seward . William Seward (anecdotist) . European Magazine . 22 . 5 . November 1792 . 342, 385–386.
6. Book: http://www.hymnary.org/tune/sicilian_mariners . The Psalter Hymnal Handbook . Sicilian Mariners . Emily . Brink . Bert . Polman . 1988 . The European Magazine and London Review first published it in 1792..