Monthly Magazine Explained

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]

See also

• The New Monthly Magazine

Further reading

• Monthly Magazine, or, British register. London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1796 onwards.
• Geoffrey Carnall . The Monthly Magazine . Review of English Studies. 5 . 18 . 1954 . 158–64 .
• Book: Kenneth Curry . Monthly Magazine, The . British Literary Magazines: 1789–1836: The Romantic Age . Alvin . Sullivan . Westport, Conn. . Greenwood . 1983 . 0313228728. 314–9 .
• Ward and Waller, eds. Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. 12. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916

Notes and References

1. Web site: ESTC - Search Results. estc.bl.uk.
2. New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, v.2. Cambridge University Press, 1971
3. 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).
4. [Archibald George Blomefield Russell]
5. Hunter, Adrian (ed.) (2020), James Hogg: Contributions to English, Irish and American Periodicals, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 237 - 240,
6. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/dickens-charles-contributor-the-monthly-magazine-london-5210992-details.aspx Christies Retrieved 9 August 2018.
7. Book: Charles Capper Associate Professor of History Boston University. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life Volume I: The Private Years. 2 April 2013. 7 September 1994. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-976234-7. 332.