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Monthly Magazine

British publication (1796–1843)

The Monthly Magazine (1796–1843) of London^[1][2] began publication in February 1796.

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.^[3] Other contributors included William Blake,^[4] Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Dyer, Henry Neele, Charles Lamb,^[3] and James Hogg.^[5] The magazine also published the earliest fiction by Charles Dickens, the first of what would become Sketches by Boz.^[6]

The circulation of the magazine in early 1830s was about 600.^[6] 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."^[7]

• 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