''The European Magazine'' (sometimes referred to as ''European Magazine'') was a monthly
magazine
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published in
London
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. Eighty-nine semi-annual volumes were published from 1782 until 1826. It was launched as the ''European Magazine, and London Review'' in January 1782, promising to offer "the
Literature
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,
History
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,
Politics
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,
Arts
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,
Etiquette
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, and
Amusements of the Age." It was in direct competition with ''
The Gentleman's Magazine
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'',
[ and in 1826 was absorbed into the '']Monthly Magazine
''The Monthly Magazine'' (1796–1843) of London 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, a ...
''.
Soon after launching the ''European Magazine'', its founding editor, James Perry, passed proprietorship to the Shakespearean scholar Isaac Reed and his partners John Sewell and Daniel Braithwaite, who guided the magazine during its first two decades.[
The articles and other contributions in the magazine appeared over initials or pseudonyms and have largely remained anonymous.] Scholars believe that the contributions include the first published poem by William Wordsworth
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(1787) and the earliest known printing of "O Sanctissima", the popular Sicilian Mariners Hymn (1792).
References
Further reading
*Helene E. Roberts's short overview of the ''European Magazine'' in Alvin Sullivan, ed., ''British Literary Magazines: The Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson, 1698–1788'' (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983), pp. 106–112.
External links
''The European Magazine, and London Review'', vols. 1–86
hathitrust.org
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Magazines established in 1782
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1782 establishments in England