''The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts'' was a
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
monthly journal inaugurated in May 1831, originally edited by
Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbell may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Thomas Campbell (poet) (1777–1844), Scottish poet
* Thomas Campbell (sculptor) (1790–1858), Scottish sculptor
* Thomas Campbell (visual artist) (born 1969), California-based visual artist ...
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It was then published by James Cochrane.
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''The Metropolitan Magazine'' was issued in three annual volumes of four monthly issues through May 1850, number 229, the first issue of volume 58.][ After one year, it was published by Saunders and Otley of Conduit Street for 15 years from May 1832 to April 1847 (volumes 4–48).][
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Editors
Campbell and Cyrus Redding
Cyrus Redding (1785–1870) was a British journalist and wine writer.
Biography
Redding was born in Cornwall. The son of a Baptist minister, he was privately educated. He moved to London about 1806, and worked for the ''Pilot'' (est. 1807) before ...
were the first editors of the ''Metropolitan''. Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel ...
became editor in 1832. From vol. 6 (1833) onwards the magazine went under the name ''The Metropolitan Magazine''. Marryat appointed the novelist Edward Howard (1793–1841) as a sub-editor in 1833: Howard serialized his semi-autobiographical ''Life of a Sub-Editor'' in the ''Metropolitan'' in 1834.[Jessica Hinings, "Howard, Edward (bap. 1793, d. 1841)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004]
Retrieved 3 April 2016, pay-walled.
/ref> Though Marryat resigned the editorship in 1835, he kept a connection with the ''Metropolitan'' for another year.
Contributors
Contributors included the poet and novelist James Hogg
James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many ...
(1770 - 1835), who lodged with Cochrane and worked in the magazine's office during his time in London in 1832, the poet Maria Abdy
Maria Abdy, née Smith, also known as Mrs Adby, (25 February 1797 – 19 July 1867) was an English poet.Susan Brown, Patricia Clements & Isobel GrundyMaria Abdy ''Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present'' ...
(c. 1800–1867), the novelist and poet Isa Blagden
Isa or Isabella Jane Blagden (30 June 1816 or 1817 – 20 January 1873) was an English-language novelist, speaker, and poet born in the East Indies or India, who spent much of her life among the English community in Florence. She was notably frie ...
(1816/17–1873), Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook (24 December 181823 September 1889) was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, some ...
, Antonio Gallenga
Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga (1810–1895) was an Italian author and patriot.
Life
He was born at Parma on November 4, 1810. He was the eldest son of a Piedmontese of good family, who served for ten years in the French army under Massà ...
, the mesmerist Spencer Timothy Hall
Spencer Timothy Hall (16 December 1812 – 26 April 1885) was an English writer and mesmerist.
Early life
He was born in a cottage near Sutton-in-Ashfield in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, the son of Samuel Hall, a Quaker cobbler and Eleano ...
(1812–1885), Hargrave Jennings
Hargrave Jennings (1817–1890) was a British Freemason, Rosicrucian, author on occultism and esotericism, and amateur student of comparative religion.
Phallism and phallicism
In several voluminous works, Jennings developed the theory that the or ...
(1817?–1890), the philosopher Thomas Charles Morgan
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1783 – 28 August 1843) was an English physician and writer with an interest in philosophical and miscellaneous subject matter. His wife was the novelist Lady Morgan.
Biography
Morgan was born in Charlotte Street, Bloo ...
(c. 1780–1843), and the poet and novelist Annie Tinsley
Annie Tinsley, born Annie Turner (11 January 1808 – 20 January 1885), was a British novelist and poet. She used the name Mrs Charles Tinsley.
Life
Tinsley was born in Preston in 1808. She claimed to have read "the classics" at an early age an ...
(1808–1885).Frederick Crouch
Frederick William Nicholls Crouch (30 July 1808 – 18 August 1896) was an English composer and cellist.
Biography
Crouch was born in Marylebone in London. He emigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Richmond, Virginia. During ...
, musician and composer (1808–1896), was the music reviewer until he emigrated to the United States in 1849.[John Warrack, "Crouch, Frederick Nicholls (1808–1896)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004]
Retrieved 3 April 2016.
/ref> The magazine ceased publication in 1850.
References
External links
* Catalogue record
006062037
012304249
at HathiTrust
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Digital Library – missing volumes (13 of 57): 1, 3-8 ll of 1832/1833 26, 29, 41, 45, 47, 53)
* – holdings include no volume missing at HathiTrust (as of January 2019)
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