Monthly Magazine

The Monthly Magazine (1796–1843) of London^[1][2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4] Other contributors included William Blake,^[5] Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Dyer, Henry Neele, Charles Lamb,^[4] and James Hogg.^[6] The magazine also published the earliest fiction by Charles Dickens, the first of what would become Sketches by Boz.^[7]

The circulation of the magazine in early 1830s was about 600.^[7] 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."^[8]

• The New Monthly Magazine

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• Monthly Magazine, or, British register. London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1796 onwards.
• Geoffrey Carnall (1954). "The Monthly Magazine". Review of English Studies. 5 (18): 158–64.
• Kenneth Curry (1983). "Monthly Magazine, The". In Sullivan, Alvin (ed.). British Literary Magazines: 1789–1836: The Romantic Age. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. pp. 314–9. ISBN 0313228728.
• Ward and Waller, eds. Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. 12. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916