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''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in
London
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, England, by
Edward Cave
Edward Cave (27 February 1691 – 10 January 1754) was an English printer, editor and publisher. He coined the term "magazine" for a periodical, founding ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' in 1731, and was the first publisher to successfully fashio ...
in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term ''
magazine
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'' (from the
French ''magazine'', meaning "storehouse") for a
periodical
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.
Samuel Johnson
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's first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''.
History
The original complete title was ''The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer''. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to
Latin poetry
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History
Scholars conven ...
. It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' under the
pen name
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A pen na ...
"Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term ''
magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...
'' (meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Contributions to the magazine frequently took the form of letters, addressed to "Mr. Urban". The iconic illustration of
St. John's Gate on the front of each issue (occasionally updated over the years) depicted Cave's home, in effect, the magazine's "office".
Before the founding of ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', there were specialised journals, but no such wide-ranging publications (although there had been attempts, such as ''The Gentleman's Journal'', which was edited by
Peter Motteux
Peter Anthony Motteux (born Pierre Antoine Motteux ; 25 February 1663 – 18 February 1718) was a French-born English author, playwright, and translator. Motteux was a significant figure in the evolution of English journalism in his era, as the ...
and ran from 1692 to 1694).
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...
's first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. During a time when parliamentary reporting was banned, Johnson regularly contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia". Though they reflected the positions of the participants, the words of the debates were mostly Johnson's own. The name "
Columbia", a poetic name for America coined by Johnson, first appears in a 1738 weekly publication of the debates of the British Parliament in the magazine.
A skilled businessman, Edward Cave developed an extensive distribution system for ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. It was read throughout the English-speaking world and continued to flourish through the 18th century and much of the 19th century under a series of different editors and publishers. It went into decline towards the end of the 19th century and finally ceased general publication in September 1907. However, issues consisting of four pages each were printed in very small editions between late 1907 and 1922 in order to keep the title formally "in print".
Series
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*1731–1735 ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' or ''Monthly Intelligencer''
*1736–1833 ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' and Historical Chronicle
*1834–1856 (June) New Series: ''The Gentleman's Magazine''
*1856 (July)–1868 (May) New Series: ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' and Historical Review
*1868 (June)–1922 Entirely New Series: ''The Gentleman's Magazine''
Indexes
In addition to an index for each year of ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', which was usually published with the December issue of the magazine, a full index was compiled by the College of Arms and typed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. This 75-volume index, covering the years 1731–1850, gives the full name and an abbreviated reference to the date, event, and any other person(s) in each entry. The index is available at the Family History Library (FHL) under the call number 942 B2g Index, and is also available on microfilm (#599738–#599761) or microfiche (#6026701). In addition to the index, the FHL also has the magazine itself available in various formats.
An abstract of the "chief contents of ''The Gentleman’s Magazine'' from 1731 to 1868" was published by George L. Gomme in 1891. He describes it as "excerpts from the original publications containing local history and information, topographical details, and family history are presented here, organized into volumes by county". Gomme's work has been digitised and indexed by
Ancestry.com
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In November 2018, ...
and is available online to Ancestry subscribers or at subscribing libraries.
A four-volume set of indexes was compiled by Samuel Ayscough (Assistant Librarian of the
British Museum
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) with some assistance or later editing by John Nichols and by Gabriel Richard. The contents of these indexes are given as:
*Volume 1 – 1731 – 1786 (published by Samuel Ayscough)
**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (494 pp.)
**Index to poetry (62 pp.)
**Index to names (239 pp.)
**Index to plates (10 pp.)
**Index to books (118 pp.)
*Volume 2 – 1787 – 1818 (published by John Nichols)
**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (486 pp.)
**Index to poetry (57 pp.)
**Index to names (519 pp.)
**Index to plates (17 pp.)
**Index to books (103 pp.)
**Index to books announced (13 pp.)
**Index to musical publications (3 pp.)
*Volume 3 – 1731 – 1818 (published by John Nichols)
**Index to plates (239 pp.)
*Volume 4 – 1731 – 1780 (published by the British Record Society)
**Index to names and surnames (687 pp.)
Volume 2 includes an "Index of Names to the Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, &c." covering 1731–1786, and volume 4 contains an "Index of Names of Persons" covering 1731–1818. The indexes are by surname only and are available online for free through Google Books:
*Ayscough, Samuel; Nichols, John. "General Index to the ''Gentleman's Magazine''" Nichols, 1789. Vol. 2. Free digital version at Google Books (follow link to page 64, which is followed by the index, which is numbered as page 1). Indexes names from Vol. 1 "To the End of the LVIth Volume of the ''Gentleman’s Magazine''" and covers 1731–1786.
*Ayscough, Samuel; Nichols, John. (sometimes Richard, Gabriel) "General Index to the ''Gentleman's Magazine'' 1787–1818" Nichols, 1821. Vol. 3. Free digital version at Google Books
David Dobson gleaned references to American births, marriages, and deaths from ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' and published it as ''American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731–1868'' (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987).
A few partial indexes to genealogical events in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' are also available:
*Fry, Edward Alexander. "Index to the Marriages in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'', 1731–1768" (London:
.n. 1922)
*Fry, Edward Alexander. "Index to the Biographical and Obituary Notices in ''Gentleman's Magazine'', 1731–1780" (London: British Records Society, 1891)
*Marriages from ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' for the years 1731 to 1768 were included in ''Boyd's Marriage Index''.
*Obituaries were included in ''Musgrave's Obituaries''.
*Joseph Foster's index to marriages includes marriages from this periodical, as well as from ''The Times'' (1865–1880 only) and the Historical Register; but covers surname beginning Aa–Alexander only.
["Marriages of the Nobility and Gentry, 1650–1880", an article in ''Collectanea Genealogica, 1881–1885'']
*
Bodleian Library
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's Internet Library of Early Journals
offers an online subject search tool for the years 1731–1750.
Authors of works published
*
Mark Akenside
Mark Akenside (9 November 1721 – 23 June 1770) was an English poet and physician.
Biography
Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child ...
(1721–1770), physician and poet
*
Henry Aldrich
Henry Aldrich (15 January 1648 – 14 December 1710) was an English theologian, philosopher, and composer.
Life
Aldrich was educated at Westminster School under Dr Richard Busby. In 1662, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1689 was mad ...
(1647–1710), English
theologian
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and
philosopher
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*
Richard Allestree
Richard Allestree or Allestry ( ; 1621/22 – 28 January 1681) was an English Royalist churchman and provost of Eton College from 1665.
Life
The son of Robert Allestree, descended from an old Derbyshire family, he was born at Uppington in Shr ...
or Allestry (1619–1681),
Royalist
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churchman and
provost of
Eton College
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from 1665
*
Anthony Alsop (d. 1726),
Church of England
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clergyman and poetical writer
*
George Ashby (1724–1808), English learned
antiquary
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and sometime president of
St. John's College, Cambridge
*
Francis Atterbury
Francis Atterbury (6 March 1663 – 22 February 1732) was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and ban ...
(1663–1732), English man of letters, politician,
Bishop of Rochester
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The town of Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was foun ...
, and Dean of
Westminster Abbey
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*
Samuel Badcock
Samuel Badcock (1747–1788) was an English nonconformist minister, theological writer and literary critic.
Life
He was born at South Molton, Devon on 23 February 1747. His parents were dissenters, and he was educated in a school at Ottery St. Ma ...
(1747–1788), English
nonconformist
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Culture and society
* Insubordination, the act of willfully disobeying an order of one's superior
*Dissent, a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or entity
** ...
minister, theological writer and literary critic
*
Henry Baker (1698–1774)
*
John Bancks (1709–1751), miscellaneous writer
*
Mary Barber (c. 1685–c. 1755), poet, mother of nine children, and a member of Swift's circle
*
Samuel Bowden (fl. 1733–1761), English physician and poet (alive in 1761 but deceased by 1778)
*
John Bowle (1725–1788),
Church of England
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clergyman known as a writer on Spanish literature
*
Samuel Boyse
Samuel Boyse (1702/3? – May 1749) was an Irish poet and writer who worked for Sir Robert Walpole and whose religious verses in particular were prized and reprinted in his time.
Life
Born in Dublin, Boyse was the son of Joseph Boyse, a Pres ...
(1708–1749), Irish poet
*
Peregrine Branwhite (1745–1795?), English poet
*
Anna Eliza Bray
Anna Eliza Bray (born Kempe, afterwards Stothard; 25 December 1790 – 21 January 1883) was an English historical novelist. She also wrote several works of non-fiction.
Biography
Anna Eliza Kempe was born in the parish of Newington, Surrey on 2 ...
(1790–1883), British novelist
*
James Norris Brewer
James Norris Brewer (1777–1839; fl. 1799–1829), was an English topographer and novelist.
He wrote many romances and topographical compilations, the best of the latter being his contributions to the series called the '' Beauties of Eng ...
(fl. 1799–1829), English
topographer
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Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary sc ...
and
novelist
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*
James Shudi Broadwood (1772–1851),
piano
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maker in
Middlesex
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and a
magistrate
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in
Surrey
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* Rev.
Moses Browne
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(1704–1787),
Church of England
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priest and poet
*
Edward John Carlos
Edward John Carlos (12 February 1798 – 20 January 1851) was an English writer on architecture, and the author of many articles for ''The Gentleman's Magazine''.
Life
Carlos was born 12 February 1798, the son of William Carlos and his wife Grace ...
(1798–1851), English antiquarian and writer on architecture
*
Thomas Christie
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Life
Christie was born to Alexander Chris ...
(1761–1796), radical political writer
*
Charles Clarke (antiquary) (died 1840), antiquarian
* Rev.
John Darwall (1731–1789),
Church of England
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clergyman
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and
hymnodist
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*
William Hepworth Dixon
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Early life
Dixon was born on 30 June 1821, at Great Ancoats in Man ...
(1821–1879), English traveler, historian, author
* Rev.
John Duncombe (1729–1786)
* Rev.
William Dunkin
William Dunkin, D.D. (1709?–1765), was an Irish poet.
Life
William Dunkin was born in Dublin in around 1709. His parents died when he was young and he was left in early life to the charge of Trinity College, Dublin, by an aunt who left her ...
, D.D. (1709?–1765), Irish poet and Anglican clergyman
*
William Falconer (1732–1769), Scottish poet
*
Thomas Faulkner (1777–1855), topographer of Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington etc.
*
James Frederic Ferguson
James Frederic Ferguson (1807–1855) was an Irish antiquary.
Life
Ferguson was born at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1807. He was of French descent, son of Jacques Frédéric Jaquemain, a native of Cambrai. During the time of the French Revo ...
(1807–1855), Irish
antiquary
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born in
Charleston, South Carolina
*
Thomas Fisher (1772–1826)
* Rev.
George Glasse (1761–1809), chaplain and a Fellow of the
Royal Society
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* Sir
Andrew Halliday (1782–1839), Scottish physician, reformer, and writer
* Sir
John Hawkins
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John may also refer to:
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Works
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* Second ...
(1719–1789), English author and friend of
Samuel Johnson
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and
Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician.
He had Strawb ...
* Rev.
William Hawkins (1722–1801), English clergyman, poet, and dramatist
*
Susanna Highmore (1690–1750), minor British poet
*
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...
(1709–1784)
*
Andrew Kippis
Andrew Kippis (28 March 17258 October 1795) was an English nonconformist clergyman and biographer.
Life
The son of Robert Kippis, a silk-hosier, he was born at Nottingham. Having gone to Carre's Grammar School in Sleaford, Lincolnshire he pass ...
(1725–1795), English
nonconformist
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Culture and society
* Insubordination, the act of willfully disobeying an order of one's superior
*Dissent, a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or entity
** ...
clergyman
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and
biographer
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Biographers
Countries of working life: Ab=Arabia, AG=Ancient Greece, Al=Australia, Am=Armenian, AR=Ancient Rome ...
* Rev.
John Langhorne (1735–1779),
Church of England
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clergyman, poet and co-translator of
Plutarch
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's ''
Lives
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* The number of lives in a video game
* '' Parallel Lives'', aka ''Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans'', a series of biographies of famous ...
''
*
William Lauder (c. 1680–1771), Scottish literary forger; article on
John Milton
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's ''
Paradise Lost
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'' was largely a
plagiarism
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of earlier works
* Sir
Sidney Lee
Sir Sidney Lee (5 December 1859 – 3 March 1926) was an English biographer, writer, and critic.
Biography
Lee was born Solomon Lazarus Lee in 1859 at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London. He was educated at the City of London School and at ...
(1859–1926)
*
John Lockman (1698–1771), English author
*
Michael Lort
Michael Lort (1725–1790) was a Welsh clergyman, academic and antiquary.
Life
The descendant of a Pembrokeshire family living at Prickeston, he was eldest son of Roger Lort, major of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who married Anne, only child of E ...
(1725–1790), Welsh clergyman, academic, and
antiquary
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*
William Markham (1719–1807), English divine and archbishop of York
*
Arthur Murphy (1727–1805),
Irish
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** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
writer
*
Laetitia Pilkington
Laetitia Pilkington (born Laetitia van Lewen; ''c.'' 1709 – 29 July 1750) was an Anglo-Irish poet. She is known for her ''Memoirs'' which document much of what is known about Jonathan Swift.
Life
Early years
Laetitia was born of two dist ...
(c.1709 to 1750),
Dublin
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-born author and friend of
Jonathan Swift
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* Robert Riccaltoun (1691–1769), Scottish Presbyterian divine and friend of poet
James Thomson (1700–1748)
*
William Roscoe
William Roscoe (8 March 175330 June 1831) was an English banker, lawyer, and briefly a Member of Parliament. He is best known as one of England's first abolitionists, and as the author of the poem for children '' The Butterfly's Ball, and the ...
(1753–1831), English historian and miscellaneous writer; poetry by him first appeared in the magazine in 1807
*
Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), English poet
*
George Stephens George Stephens may refer to:
*George Stephens (playwright) (1800–1851), English author and dramatist
*George Stephens (philologist) (1813–1895), British archaeologist and philologist, who worked in Scandinavia
* George Washington Stephens, Sr. ...
(1813–1895), English
archeologist
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and
philologist
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who worked in Scandinavia
*
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish Satire, satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whig (British political party), Whigs, then for the Tories (British political party), Tories), poe ...
(1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became
Dean
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People
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* Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean
Titles
* ...
of
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
* Captain
Philip Thicknesse
Captain Philip Thicknesse (1719 – 23 November 1792) was an English author, eccentric, and friend of the artist Thomas Gainsborough. He wrote several travel guides.
Early life
Philip Thicknesse was born in Staffordshire, England, son of John ...
(1719–1792)
*
James Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright best known for his masterpiece ''
The Seasons'' and the lyrics of "
Rule, Britannia!
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"
*
Nigel Tourneur (18??–18??), pseudonym of a
fin de siècle
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writer known for one work only—''Hidden Witchery'', a collection of seven short stories and a short prose drama
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Thomas Tyrwhitt
Thomas Tyrwhitt (; 27 March 173015 August 1786) was an English classical scholar and critic.
Life
He was born in London, where he also died. He was educated at Eton College and Queen's College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Merton College ...
(1730–1786), English
classical scholar
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critic
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Michael Tyson (antiquary) (1740–1780),
Church of England
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clergyman, academic, antiquary and artist
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Richard Weston (botanist) (1733–1806)
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Charles Woodmason
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(c. 1720–1789), English-born American poet
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Edward Young
Edward Young (c. 3 July 1683 – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for ''Night-Thoughts'', a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the mos ...
(1681–1765), English poet, best remembered for ''
Night-Thoughts
''The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality'', better known simply as ''Night-Thoughts'', is a long poem by Edward Young published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745. It was illustrated with notable engrav ...
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Associated artists, painters, topographers
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James Norris Brewer
James Norris Brewer (1777–1839; fl. 1799–1829), was an English topographer and novelist.
He wrote many romances and topographical compilations, the best of the latter being his contributions to the series called the '' Beauties of Eng ...
(fl. 1799–1829) English
topographer
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novelist
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Thomas Faulkner (1775–1855), topographer
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John Gibson (1750–1792), cartographer
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Moses Griffith (1749–1819), Welsh draughtsman, engraver, and water colourist
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William George Moss, chief illustrator c.1819
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Bartholomew Howlett (1767–1827), English draughtsman and engraver
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Samuel Rawle (1771–1860), English topographical engraver and draughtsman
See also
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History of journalism
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References
Further reading
* Bond, Donald. "Review: The Gentleman's Magazine" ''Modern Philology'' (1940) 38#1 pp. 85–100
in JSTOR.* Carlson, C. Lennart. ''The First Magazine. A History of the Gentleman's Magazine, with an Account of Dr. Johnson's Editorial Activity and of the Notice Given America in the Magazine'' (Brown University Press, 1938), 281pp
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*Two supplements to Kuist were originally published in Vols. 44, 45, 46, 47, and 49 o
Studies in Bibliography The Bibliographical Society of the
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The Gentlewoman
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For its first thirty-six years its full title was ''The Gentlewoman: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Gentlewomen''.Nos. 1 to 1,853 dated bet ...
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''The Gentleman's Magazine'' archives at
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''The Gentleman's Magazine'' archives at
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Bodleian Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journalsincluding ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', vols 1–20 (1731–50)
*''A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine'', John Walker,
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