The Pall Mall Gazette
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| Type | Daily (afternoons) |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | G. Smith (1865–80) H. Thompson (1880–92) W. Astor (1892–1915) H. Dalziel (1916–23) |
| Founded | 7 February 1865 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | 1923 |
| Headquarters | London |
The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in
Beginning late in 1868, at least through the 1880s, a selection or digest of its contents was published as the weekly Pall Mall Budget.
History
The Pall Mall Gazette took the name of a fictional newspaper conceived by
We address ourselves to the higher circles of society: we care not to disown it—The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen; its conductors speak to the classes in which they live and were born. The field-preacher has his journal, the radical free-thinker has his journal: why should the Gentlemen of England be unrepresented in the Press?
Under the ownership of George Smith of Smith, Elder & Co. from 1865 to 1880, with Frederick Greenwood as editor, The Pall Mall Gazette was a Conservative newspaper. Greenwood resigned in 1880, when the paper's new owner (Smith's new son-in-law, Henry Thompson) wished for it to support the policies of the Liberal Party.[1] Taking all the staff with him, Greenwood became the editor of the newly-founded St James's Gazette and maintained his advocacy of Conservative policy.[2][3] The first editor under Thompson's ownership was John Morley (later Viscount Morley), with W. T. Stead as assistant editor. Morley resigned in 1883 to go into politics.[4]
Stead's editorship from 1883 to 1889 saw the paper cover such subjects as
Thompson sold the paper to
Several well-known writers contributed to The Pall Mall Gazette over the years. George Bernard Shaw gained his first job in journalism writing for the paper. Other contributors have included Anthony Trollope, Friedrich Engels, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Whibley, Sir Spencer Walpole, Arthur Patchett Martin,[6] and Jamaican-born writer Eneas Sweetland Dallas.
References in popular culture
Many works of fiction refer to The Pall Mall Gazette. For example:
- Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes places an advertisement in newspapers including The Pall Mall Gazette, in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (1892).
- In Bram Stoker's epistolary novel Dracula (1897), the reader is presented with a Pall Mall Gazette article describing the escape of a wolf from the Zoological Gardens.
- In H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895), the Time Traveller returns to London and sees that day's edition of The Pall Mall Gazette. From its date he knows that he is home at his starting point in time.
- In Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898), the narrator describes the "pre-Martian periodical called Punch" as a prophecy.[clarification needed]
- In director Nicholas Meyer's first feature film Time After Time (1979), H. G. Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) is a time traveler himself, 90 years in his future chasing Jack the Ripper (by David Warner) through the city of San Francisco in the year 1979. In a revolving restaurant, new female friend Amy (by Mary Steenburgen) states that Wells strikes her as the type that "never reads a newspaper". Wells replies, "I used to write for a newspaper, The Pall Mall Gazette".
- In the fighting between British and Afghan troops, and the cavalry attacks on the Siouxin the United States.
- In Gabrielle D'annunzio's novel "The Pleasure" "The Pall Mall Gazette" is referred as the scandalous English newspaper.
Ownership
- George Smith(1865–1880)
- Henry Yates Thompson (1880–1892)
- William Waldorf Astor(1892–1917)
- Henry Dalziel (1917–1923)[8]
Editorship
| Editor's name | Years |
|---|---|
| Frederick Greenwood | 1865–1880 |
John Morley[4]
|
1880–1883 |
William Thomas Stead
|
1883–1889 |
| Edward Tyas Cook | 1890–1892 |
Henry Cust
|
1892–1896 |
| Douglas Straight[9] | 1896–1909 |
| Frederick Higginbottom | 1909–1912 |
James Louis Garvin
|
1912–1915 |
| D. M. Sutherland | 1915–1923 |
See also
References
- ISBN 9781108047647.
- ISBN 9780472103164.
- ^ Chapman-Huston, Desmond (1936). The lost historian: a memoir of Sir Sidney Low. London: J. Murray.
- ^ a b Andrews, Allen Robert Ernest (June 1968). The Forward Party: The Pall Gazette 1865–1889 (M.A. Thesis). Vancouver: University of British Columbia. pp. v, 26–44, 45–66. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ Brake,Laurel; Demoor, Marysa Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland, Academia Press, 2009, p478
- ^ Martin, Arthur Patchett (1851–1902) at the Australian Dictionary of Biography
- . Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "Dalziel Buys the Pall Mall Gazette", New York Times, 5 January 1917
- ^ Douglas Straight at Probert encyclopaedia Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- John Scott (1950). The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, of its first editor Frederick Greenwood and of its Founder George Murray Smith. Oxford University Press.
- Raymond Schultz (1972). Crusader in Babylon: WT Stead and the Pall Mall Gazette.
External links
- Pall Mall Gazette — by John Simkin
- Articles by Frederick Engels in The Pall-Mall Gazette, 1870–71
- The W.T. Stead Resource Site
- Frances Carruthers Gould & The Pall Mall Gazette – UK Parliament Living Heritage
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