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The New Monthly Magazine was a British monthly magazine published from 1814 to 1884. It was founded by Henry Colburn and published by him through to 1845.

History

Colburn and

Annual Register".[2]

In its April 1819 issue it published

Lord Byron
, who partly inspired it.

In 1821 Colburn recast the magazine with a more literary and less political focus, retitling it The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal. Nominally edited by the poet

London Magazine, appeared in the New Monthly from late 1821, his essay "The Fight" appeared in 1822,[4] and his series "The Spirits of the Age'" was later republished, with essays from other sources, in the book The Spirit of the Age (1825).[5]

Theodore Edward Hook
.

In 1837 the magazine was retitled The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, to meet the challenge of

W. M. Thackeray. Upon Hook's death in 1841, Thomas Hood was editor until 1843.[7][8]

In 1845 Colburn sold the magazine for £2500 to William Harrison Ainsworth, who had earlier edited Bentley's Miscellany and who now edited his own Ainsworth's Magazine. Ainsworth edited the New Monthly with his cousin William Francis Ainsworth as sub-editor.[7] From 1871–79 William Francis Ainsworth was editor.

Titles

Over the years, the magazine had several titles. These are listed at Periodicals Online,[9] and comprise:

  • The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register – February 1814 to December 1820
  • The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal – January 1821 to December 1836
  • The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist – January 1837 to December 1852
  • The New Monthly Magazine – January 1853 to December 1881
  • The New Monthly – January to October 1882.

Editors

The editorship of the New Monthly Magazine was complicated by the frequent use of a deputy position, or "working editor". Hook, Hood, Ainsworth, and Ainsworth alone are named on bound volume title pages.[7]

References

  1. ^ David Higgins, 'The New Monthly Magazine', The Literary Encyclopedia, 22 October 2006.
  2. ^ 'Introduction', Wellesley Index to Periodical Literature
  3. ^ 'Introduction', Wellesley Index to Periodical Literature; Higgins, The Literary Encyclopedia.
  4. ^ New Monthly Magazine Vol 3, 1822 page 102 at Google Books
  5. ^ Higgins, The Literary Encyclopedia.
  6. ^ Introduction, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h
    HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of bound volumes through 1870, and some thereafter. See one catalogue record (recommended)
    . Volume title pages name these editors:
    • Theodore Hook, Esq (v. 49-62; 1837–41)
    • Thomas Hood, Esq (v. 63-68; 1841–43)
    • none (v. 69-72; 1843–44)
    • William Harrison Ainsworth (v. 73-147; 1845–70), at least
    Prior to 1837, when the full title [...] and Humourist was also introduced, the volume title pages name no editor (relying on spot check of selected volumes). After 1870 the linked HathiTrust catalogue record covers few volumes. Those for 1873 name "William Francis Ainsworth, Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., &c." (vols. III-IV, new series).
  8. ODNB, the transcendentalist Francis Barham (1808–1871) edited the paper at around this time: "Two hundred pounds invested in the New Monthly Magazine procured him the joint editorship with John Abraham Heraud, the poet and dramatist. Anne Taylor, "Barham, Francis Foster (Alist Francis Barham) (1808–1871)"
    , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 January 2008. Heraud's ODNB entry has him editing the Monthly Magazine from 1839 to 1842, but does not mention the New Monthly.
  9. ^ List of periodical titles, retrieved 10 June 2010 (Scroll down to see title listings for The New Monthly, listed below The New London Magazine and above The New Quarterly Magazine
  10. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25450. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  11. ^ "Samuel Carter Hall". www.ricorso.net.
  12. ^ 1839–1840 Francis Foster Barham edited with John Abraham Heraud, according to Thompson Cooper's DNB article on Barham; contradicted by the ODNB biography of Heraud which says it was the Monthly Magazine 1839–1842, though supported by the ODNB biography of Barham.

Further reading

Many earlier editions of this publication are now available online. Later volume numbering is sequential by year. In earlier publications, at least one example is to be found of multiple volume numbering in the same year, such as 1822, per examples listed below. The list also illustrates the titles used, and gives an indication of the publishing frequency.

External links

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