''The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts'' was a

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monthly journal inaugurated in May 1831, originally edited by Thomas Campbell. It was then published by James Cochrane. ''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).

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 (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, 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 (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, 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
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