Young Goodman Brown - The New-England Magazine - April 1835

''The New-England Magazine'' was a monthly literary magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1831 to 1835.

Overview

The magazine was published by

Joseph T. Buckingham Joseph Tinker Buckingham (December 21, 1779''Cyclopaedia of American literature'Historical Magazine'' – April 10, 1861) was an American journalist and politician in New England. He rose from humble beginnings to become an influential conser ...

and his son Edwin. The first edition was published in July 1831, and it published a total of 48 editions. After its final issue, in December 1835, the magazine merged with the

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-based ''American Monthly Magazine''. The magazine has been described as "one of antebellum America's few worthwhile literary journals". Its contributors included

Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (23 July 1793 – 3 April 1870) was an American Unitarian minister and pastor of the First Church of Boston from 1815 to 1850. Frothingham was opposed to Theodore Parker and the interjection of transcendentalism into ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include "Paul Revere's Ride", ''The Song of Hiawatha'', and ''Evangeline''. He was the first American to completely transl ...

Edward Everett Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig, served as U.S. representative, U.S. senator, the 15th governor of Massa ...

, and

Samuel Gridley Howe Samuel Gridley Howe (November 10, 1801 – January 9, 1876) was an American physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind. He organized and was the first director of the Perkins Institution. In 1824 he had gone to Greece to ...

. Beginning in November 1831,

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most fa ...

included two of the essays that evolved into his "

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table ''The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table'' (1858) is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The essays were originally published in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' in 1857 and 1858 before being collected in book form. The author had wri ...

" series, which became his most popular prose works. Several of

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that t ...

's early short stories were published in the magazine, including "

The Ambitious Guest "The Ambitious Guest" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. First published in ''The New-England Magazine'' in June 1835, it was republished in the second volume of ''Twice-Told Tales'' in 1841. Plot A young traveler stops for the night with a ...

" (November 1835) and "

The Great Carbuncle "The Great Carbuncle" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first appeared in December 1835 before being included in the collection ''Twice-Told Tales'' in 1837. Plot synopsis In the White Mountains, a band of eight adventurers gathers tog ...

" (December 1835).Mellow, James R. ''Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980: 51. . The magazine has no connection to ''

The New England Magazine ''The New England Magazine'' was a monthly literary magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1884 to 1917. It was known as ''The Bay State Monthly'' from 1884 to 1886. The magazine was published by J. N. McClinctock and Company. The ma ...

'', a Boston publication published from 1884 to 1917.

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