Monthly Magazine

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The Monthly Magazine (1796–1843) of London{{Cite web|url=http://estc.bl.uk/P1962|title=ESTC - Search Results|website=estc.bl.uk}}New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, v.2. Cambridge University Press, 1971 began publication in February 1796 as The Monthly Magazine and British Register. From 1826 through 1835 it used the title The Monthly Magazine, or British Register of Literature, Sciences, and Belles Lettres. It continued from 1835 through 1838 as The Monthly Magazine of Politics, Literature, and the Belles Lettres, then from 1839 through 1843 as The Monthly Magazine.{{cite book | page = 106 | title = Index and Finding List of Serials Published in the British Isles, 1789–1832 | first = William S. | last = Ward | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | year = 2014 | location = Lexington, Kentucky | isbn = 9780813164878 | url = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Index_and_Finding_List_of_Serials_Publis/b-keBgAAQBAJ}}

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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.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). Other contributors included William Blake,Archibald George Blomefield Russell. "The engravings of William Blake". Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Dyer, Henry Neele, Charles Lamb, and James Hogg.Hunter, Adrian (ed.) (2020), James Hogg: Contributions to English, Irish and American Periodicals, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 237 - 240, {{isbn|9780748695980}} The magazine also published the earliest fiction by Charles Dickens, the first of what would become Sketches by Boz.[https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/dickens-charles-contributor-the-monthly-magazine-london-5210992-details.aspx Christies Retrieved 9 August 2018.]

The circulation of the magazine in early 1830s was about 600. 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."{{cite book|author=Charles Capper Associate Professor of History Boston University|title=Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life Volume I: The Private Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rSBvXb1izyYC&pg=PA332|accessdate=2 April 2013|date=7 September 1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-976234-7|page=332}}

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