The New-York Magazine Explained

The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
Category:	Literary magazine
Frequency:	Monthly
Publisher:	Thomas and James Swords
Country:	United States
Based:	New York City
Language:	English
Oclc:	2413653

The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository was a monthly literary magazine published in New York City from 1790 to 1797, and claimed as one of the four most important magazines of its time.^[1] One of the longest-running magazines of that era (it published almost 100 issues),^[2] it focused on theater and travel writing and also essays, poems, and short stories.^[3]

The magazine was founded by Thomas and James Swords, who published, printed, and probably edited it. Some of the writers came from "The Friendly Club", a literary society, and included William Dunlap (author of the theater column) and Elihu Hubbard Smith, besides beginning and established authors such as Charles Brockden Brown and Joel Barlow, whose The Hasty-Pudding was published by the magazine in 1796.^[4]

Illustrated with costly copperplate engravings, its subscribers included George Washington, John Adams,^[2] John Jay, and Richard Varick.^[5]

External links

• Archive (incomplete; duplicates are from different sources):
  • Nov 1790, Jan 1791, Index 1793, Oct 1793, Dec 1793, Nov 1794
  • 1794
  • 1795
  • 1795
  • 1797
  • 1797

Notes and References

1. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers, David Paul Nord, 2001, p. 175. "With such a distinguished readership it is little wonder that the publishers of the New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository decided to publish a list of subscribers to their first volume in 1790."
2. Web site: A Publisher's History of American Magazines — Eighteenth-Century American Magazines. Hutchinson. Peter. 2008. The Magazinist. 2013-06-06.
3. Web site: Early Periodical Collections on Microfilm. Armstrong Atlantic State University. 2013-06-06.
4. The Contexts and Themes of "The Hasty-Pudding". Lemay. J. A. Leo. 1982. Early American Literature. 17. 1. 3–23. 25056448.
5. Nord. David Paul. 1988. A Republican Literature: A Study of Magazine Reading and Readers in Late Eighteenth-Century New York. American Quarterly. 40. 1. 42–64. 2713141. 10.2307/2713141.