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List Of 18th-century British Periodicals
This list of 18th-century British periodicals excludes daily newspapers. In order of first publication *'' The Tatler'' (1709—1711) *'' The Female Tatler'' (8 July 1709—31 March 1710). Thrice weekly; 115 issues *''The Spectator'' (1711–1714). Founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele; published daily, 1711–1712; in 1714, three times a week for six months. Collected in book form it remained hugely popular for the rest of the century. *'' Vetusta Monumenta'' (1718–1906). Illustrated antiquarian papers published at intermittent intervals by the Society of Antiquaries of London. *'' The Intelligencer'' (1728—1729). Launched by Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan *''The Plain Dealer'' (1724–1725). Bi-weekly. Founded by Aaron Hill. *''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (1731–1907). Monthly. *'' The London Magazine'' (1732–1785) *''The Bee'' (1733–1735). Founded by Eustace Budgell. *'' Lloyd's List'' (1734–). Weekly, then semi-weekly. *'' The Scots Magazine'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gentleman's Magazine, May 1759
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Lloyd's List
''Lloyd's List'' is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. It was published daily until 2013 (when the final print issue, number 60,850, was published), and is now published digitally. Also known simply as ''The List'', it was begun by Edward Lloyd, the proprietor of Lloyd's Coffee House, as a source of information for merchants' agents and insurance underwriters who met regularly in his establishment on Lombard Street to negotiate insurance coverage for trading vessels. It continues to provide this information in addition to marine insurance, offshore energy, logistics, market data, research, global trade and law information, and shipping news. History The earliest form of ''Lloyd's List'' was estimated by some to have begun by 1692. One historian, Michael Palmer, wrote that: "No later than January 1692, Lloyd began publishing a weekly newsletter, ‘Ships Arrived at and Departed from sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson ( – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, he attended Pembroke College, Oxford, until lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher, he moved to London and began writing for ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. Early works include '' Life of Mr Richard Savage'', the poems ''London'' and '' The Vanity of Human Wishes'' and the play '' Irene''. After nine years of effort, Johnson's '' A Dictionary of the English Language'' appeared in 1755, and was acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship". Later work included essays, an annotated '' The Plays of William Shakespeare'', and the apologue '' The Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hawkesworth (book Editor)
John Hawkesworth LLD ( 1715 – 16 November 1773) was an English writer and book editor, born in London. Biography In 1744, Hawkesworth succeeded Samuel Johnson as compiler of the parliamentary debates for the ''Gentleman's Magazine'', and from 1741 to 1749 he contributed poems signed Greville, or H Greville, to that journal. In company with Johnson and others he started a periodical called '' The Adventurer'', which ran to 140 issues, of which 70 were from the pen of Hawkesworth himself. Because of his defence of morality and religion, Hawkesworth was rewarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury with the degree of LL.D, In 1754–1755 he published an edition (12 vols) of Swift's works, with a life prefixed that Johnson praised in his ''Lives of the Poets''. A larger edition (27 vols) appeared in 1766–1779. He adapted Dryden's ''Amphitryon'' for the Drury Lane stage in 1756, and Southerne's ''Oronooko'' in 1759. He wrote the libretto of an oratorio Zimri in 1760, and the next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventurer (newspaper)
''The Adventurer'' (1752–1754) was a London 18th-century bi-weekly newspaper undertaken after the successful conclusion of '' The Rambler''. Contributors included John Hawkesworth and Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson ( – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The ''Oxford .... The Adventurer and Idler. London: Printed for W. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 References Further reading * The Adventurerv.1 (1752) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rambler
''The Rambler'' was a periodical (strictly, a series of short papers) by Samuel Johnson. Description ''The Rambler'' was published on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 1750 to 1752 and totals 208 articles. It was Johnson's most consistent and sustained work in the English language. Though The Rambler was superficially similar to earlier publications such as ''The Spectator'' and '' The Tatler'', Johnson made his periodical unique by using a style of prose which differed from that of the time period. The most popular publications of the day were written in the common or colloquial language of the people whereas ''The Rambler'' was written in elevated prose. ''The Rambler'' discussed subjects such as morality, literature, society, politics, and religion. Johnson included quotes and ideas in his publication from Renaissance humanists such as Desiderius Erasmus and René Descartes. His writings in ''The Rambler'' are considered to be neoclassical. Purpose ''The Rambler'' was written prim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer. A prolific author of various literature, he is regarded among the most versatile writers of the Georgian era. His comedy plays for the English stage are considered second in importance only to those of William Shakespeare, and his ''magnum opus'', the 1766 novel ''The Vicar of Wakefield'', was one of the most popular and widely read literary works of 18th-century Great Britain. He wrote plays such as ''The Good-Natur'd Man'' (1768) and ''She Stoops to Conquer'' (1771), as well as the poem ''The Deserted Village'' (1770). Goldsmith is additionally thought by some literary commentators, including Washington Irving, to have written the 1765 classic children's novel ''The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes'', one of the earliest and most influential works of children's literature. Goldsmith maintained a close friendship with Samuel Johnson, anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dodsley
Robert Dodsley (13 February 1703 – 23 September 1764) was an English bookseller, publisher, poet, playwright, and miscellaneous writer. Life Dodsley was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school. He is said to have been apprenticed to a stocking-weaver in Mansfield, from whom he ran away, going into service as a footman. Profits and fame from his early literary works enabled Dodsley to establish himself with the help of his friends (Alexander Pope lent him £100) as a bookseller at the sign of Tully's Head in Pall Mall, London, in 1735. He soon became one of the foremost publishers of the day. One of his first publications was Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson ( – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...'s ''London'' for which he paid ten guineas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Griffiths
Ralph Griffiths (c.1720 – 28 September 1803) was an English journal editor and publisher of Welsh extraction. In 1749, he founded London's first successful literary magazine, the ''Monthly Review'' (1749–1845), and remained its editor until his death in 1803. Biography Griffiths was born in Shropshire, England, but little is known of his early life; he began his career as a watchmaker at Stone, Staffordshire, before moving to London around 1741 to work for the Fleet Street bookseller Jacob Robinson. In 1747 Griffiths erected the warning ''Sign of the Dunciad'' outside of his own shop. Two years later he launched the ''Monthly Review'', which became an instant success and earned him an estimated £2,000 a year. The bookseller's sign warning dunces that ''The Monthly'' would have no mercy in exposing dull and uninteresting authors. Throughout his life, Griffiths was an avid collector of books, pamphlets and essays. He was an early campaigner for improving the literary stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monthly Review (London)
''The Monthly Review'' (1749–1845) was an English periodical founded by Ralph Griffiths, a Nonconformist (Protestantism), Nonconformist bookseller. The first periodical in England to offer reviews, it featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollett—who would go on to establish the ''Monthly'''s competitor in 1756, ''The Critical Review (newspaper), The Critical Review''. William Kenrick (writer), William Kenrick, the "superlative scoundrel", was editor from 1759 to 1766. Publishing history of ''The Monthly Review'' *Volumes 1–81, May 1749 – December 1789; * v. 1–108, January 1790 – November 1825; *new ser., v. 1–15, January 1826 – December 1830; *new ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percival Stockdale
Percival Stockdale (26 October 1736 – 14 September 1811) was an English poet, writer and reformer, active especially in opposing slavery. Biography Born 26 October 1736 (O. S.) at Branxton, Northumberland, he was the only child of Thomas Stockdale, vicar of the parish and perpetual curate of Cornhill-on-Tweed, and his wife, Dorothy Collingwood of Murton, Northumberland. After spending six years at Alnwick grammar school, he went in 1751 to the grammar school at Berwick-upon-Tweed. He became acquainted with the Greek and Latin classics, and acquired a taste for poetry. In 1754, Stockdale entered the University of Aberdeen, with a bursary for the united colleges of St. Leonard and St. Salvador. The death of his father in 1755 left the family with money troubles, and he accepted the offer of a lieutenancy in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He joined Admiral John Byng 's fleet, which anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar in May 1756. Stockdale, with part of his regiment, was on board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hinton (publisher)
James Hinton may refer to: * James Hinton (musician) (born 1988), American musician known as The Range * James Hinton (surgeon) (1822–1875), English surgeon and author * James E. Hinton (c. 1937–2006), American cinematographer * James Myles Hinton (1891–1970), African American businessperson, civil rights leader * James Sidney Hinton (1834–1892), American politician and Indiana legislator, first African American in that role * George Barlow (English poet) (1847 – 1913), English poet, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym James Hinton See also * James Hinton House, Missouri {{hndis, Hinton, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
