''Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany'' was a monthly journal originally published by

Thomas Hood Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as " The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for ''The London Magazine'', ''Athenaeum'', and ''Punch''. ...

. A total of 61 issues were published from January 1844 to June 1849. Hood made most of the original material for it. After his death in 1845,

Charles Rowcroft Charles Rowcroft (1798, London – 1856), pastoralist and novelist, the son of Thomas Edward Rowcroft, a British consul in Peru. Rowcroft was educated at Eton, after which he went to Hobart Town, Australia, in 1821 and took up a grant of 2,000 a ...

became the editor. The magazine was not particularly successful, partly due to the refusal to take on a publisher.

Sources

* *http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hood/hallbio.html
Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany archive at HathiTrust
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