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/ref> 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."
''Monthly Magazine''
or, British register. London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1796 onwards. * * *Ward and Waller, eds. ''Cambridge History of English Literature'', vol. 12. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916 {{DEFAULTSORT:Monthly Magazine 1796 establishments in Great Britain 1843 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1796 Magazines disestablished in 1843 Magazines published in London Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
''The Monthly Magazine'' (1796–1843) of London
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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''.
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.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 includedWilliam Blake
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, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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, George Dyer, Henry Neele, Charles Lamb
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, and James Hogg
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. The magazine also published the earliest fiction by Charles Dickens
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, the first of what would become '' Sketches by Boz''.Christies Retrieved 9 August 2018./ref> 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."
See also
*'' The New Monthly Magazine''References
Further reading
''Monthly Magazine''
or, British register. London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1796 onwards. * * *Ward and Waller, eds. ''Cambridge History of English Literature'', vol. 12. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916 {{DEFAULTSORT:Monthly Magazine 1796 establishments in Great Britain 1843 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1796 Magazines disestablished in 1843 Magazines published in London Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom